"Utilizing a near-peer, relational mentoring model, we argue that pre-college urban ecology research mentoring provides a place-based, authentic research experience that strengthens URM science identity and intent to pursue ecology-related majors."
"This workbook helps community-based organizations navigate partnerships with science institutions to better implement informal science education projects in underserved communities."
"This workbook is a product of research conducted by community- based organizations and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology over three years, focused on how to create equitable partnerships between informal science institutions and community-based organizations in underrepresented communities."
"Drawing from our experiences in community based design research, we argue for cultivating axiological innovations in research and interventions. We explore... critical historicity, inter-generational learning, and strategic transformations of institutional relations."
Read this chapter about TechTales -- a multi-institutional design-based research initiative.
This article presents findings from TechTales, a participatory design research (PDR) project where learning scientists, public library staff members, informal science educators, and staff members from Native-American-serving organizations collaborated to design a family-based robotics workshop that was grounded in storytelling.
"This article draws out the implications for school and classroom practices of an emerging consensus about the science of learning and development, outlined in a recent synthesis of the research."
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