Webinar Series
STEM Education That Cultivates Just, Thriving, and Sustainable Worlds
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The MƒA Equity Webinars Series invites nationally recognized educators to share ideas that support equity within STEM. Following an interactive presentation by the speaker, Master Teachers have the opportunity to discuss how these ideas might be applied in their own school environments in small groups. Teachers from MƒA, other Master Teacher programs, and people interested in learning more about MƒA are invited to attend.
Societies grapple with profound issues, such as racial justice and income inequality, amidst rapidly shifting ecological systems and changing climates. Given these realities, what knowledge, reasoning, and decision-making skills do students need to navigate these challenges and become successful students and members of society? In this talk, Dr. Bang presents findings from a project implementing interdisciplinary field-based science education grounded in cultivating socio-ecological systems understandings. She shares educational tools that thoughtfully integrate cultural, power, and identity issues to support equitable STEM education.
Dr. Megan Bang (of Ojibwe and Italian descent) is a Professor of the Learning Sciences and Psychology at Northwestern University. Dr. Bang studies the dynamics of culture, learning, and development across the life course. She is interested in knowledge organization, reasoning, and decision-making about complex socio-ecological systems and their intersections with identity, cultural variation, history, and power and focuses primarily on regenerating Indigenous systems of education for the 21st century. Dr. Bang is also a member of the National Academies of Education and serves on the Board of Science Education at the National Academy of Sciences.