Date: Tuesday, February 11 at 9:00am-10:30am PST

On February 11th at 9:00am PST we will be having a zoom seminar on Community-based Science Education. Bud Mehan and Allie McCarthy from UCSD/Groundworks and Jasmine Nation and her colleagues at Cal Poly will be telling us about their programs. We will be joined by Richard Duran from U.C. Santa Barbara. 

The session will begin with brief presentations about each of the programs to be followed by discussion. Please feel free to pass along this message and the attached readings to your colleagues and students.

–Mike

 Zoom Link:  https://zoom.us/j/98564124237

Meeting ID: 985 6412 4237

Passcode: Vygotsky

Discussions in chatbox can be found here.

Readings:

Nation, J. M., & Yep, A. (2024). Co-designing science lessons in Spanish: Connecting science, home language, and community for undergraduates. In University-community partnerships for transformative education: Sowing seeds of resistance and renewal (pp. 137-155). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

McCarthy, A., & Mehan, H. (2024). Advancing knowledge, action, and literacy among underrepresented minority youth and families through community science. Paper prepared for the Citizen’s Ambassador Program Conference, Havana, Cuba.