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Download fileInvestigating Informal STEM Teaching and Learning in a Planetarium's Urban Youth Leadership Program
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posted on 2019-12-01, 00:00 authored by Kristen VogtScience museums have become more inclusive and engaging to audiences, including the development of programming intended to reach wider audiences and provide more equitable access to science learning. However, how do educators and designers of these programs conceptualize equity? To explore this question, interviews with educators (n=6), student artifacts, and program documents were analyzed to identify the ways educators talked about equity in one out-of-school youth program created and implemented by a large, urban science museum. These discourses of equity fit into five categories: bridging in-school and out-of-school, community acceptance, infrastructure access, motivation/enjoyment and positive affective responses, and increase access for a select few.
History
Advisor
Phillips, NathanChair
Phillips, NathanDepartment
Curriculum and InstructionDegree Grantor
University of Illinois at ChicagoDegree Level
- Doctoral
Degree name
PhD, Doctor of PhilosophyCommittee Member
Morales Doyle, Daniel Quinn, Therese Stovall, David Calabrese Barton, AngelaSubmitted date
December 2019Thesis type
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- en