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Conference Support: Indigenous Worldviews in Informal Science Education (I-WISE): Integration, Synthesis, and Opportunity

September 15, 2013 - August 31, 2015 | Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks
The conference, Indigenous Worldviews in Informal Science Education, is designed to advance research on the integration of Native and Western science in relation to informal science learning. The goals of the conference are to integrate and synthesize research and theory, formulate a research agenda, and share the results with the STEM education community. The conference is organized around six strands: Collaboration, Policy, Holistic Education, Next Generation Youth, and Evaluation. A six-week preconference online discussion of conference issues leads into the two-day conference, held at Imiloa Astronomy Center in Hilo, Hawaii. The meeting brings together sixty participants including educators, research scientists, learning researchers, policymakers, and Native youth. The conference includes keynotes, workshops and synthesis discussion groups, which will be synthesized and presented at a policy outcome meeting held in Washington, DC that follows the conference. Conference results will be further disseminated at relevant conferences, in publications, and through online discussions. A full evaluation process will inform the detailed planning of the conference and will evaluate the effectiveness of the conference, based on responses from conference participants.

Funders

NSF
Funding Program: ISE/AISL
Award Number: 1250571
Funding Amount: 249664

TEAM MEMBERS

  • Leslie Kimura
    Principal Investigator
    University of Hawaii at Hilo
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    Co-Principal Investigator
    Indigenous Education Institute
  • Discipline: Education and learning science | General STEM | History/policy/law | Space science
    Audience: Youth/Teen (up to 17) | Educators/Teachers | Museum/ISE Professionals | Scientists | Evaluators
    Environment Type: Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks | Conferences

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