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Connection With More-Than-Human Participants in Science Learning
Fri, April 12, 7:45 to 9:15am, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 119BSession Type: Symposium
Abstract
Science education research has increasingly focused on justice and dignity for learners. We aim to extend this stance to include more-than-human participants in learning. From a variety of epistemological perspectives, the presenters in this session will describe connections cultivated between learners and more-than-human participants in their learning. Our focus on connection attends to and values emotions that might otherwise be overlooked as a part of disciplinary learning and that are generative and intertwined with learners’ sensemaking and practice. We will explore connection in diverse contexts: informal learning with teens, a 6th grade STEM classroom, a university science ethics course, and a graduate-level teacher education course.
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Unraveling Multispecies Interactions: Caring Relationships With Pets as Sites for Practice-Based Science Learning - Priyanka Parekh, Northern Arizona University; Joseph L. Polman, University of Colorado - Boulder; R. Benjamin Shapiro, University of Washington
Expansive Relationality: Multiple Pedagogies Toward Justice and Care for Teaching With Lands and Waters - Priya Pugh, IslandWood; Déana A Scipio, IslandWood
Thinking With Feelings in an Ecosystems Investigation Through Pen Pal Letters - Ashlyn Pierson, The Ohio State University; Corey Brady, Southern Methodist University; Sarah Jaewon Lee, University of Washington
Reasoning as Rivers: More-Than-Human Empathizing in Science Identity Work - Adam Papendieck, University of New Mexico; Flavio S. Azevedo, Southern Methodist University; Hakeoung Hannah Lee, University of Virginia