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What is the Science Education Seminar?

The Science Education Program Seminar bi-weekly meeting where professors, students, and those interested in research in science education can interact, present research (at any stage of progress), and engage in lively critical discussion.  Presentations range from completed, polished talks to open-ended discussions around a potential research question.  

Cool Link: here is a link for the podcast with Ramachandran about curing phantom limb syndrome: http://blogs.wnyc.org/radiolab/2009/04/20/where-am-i-rebroadcast/

Time

1:15pm-2:45pm every other monday (alternating with the PERG research meeting). 

Location:

Toll Physics Building, room 4208

Schedule:

September 14: Brian Danielak & the Engineering Ed. Group -- The Role of Emotion and Affect in Engineers' Mathematical SenseMaking (abstract: web pdf) (supporting materials)

September 28: Tiffany Sikorski -- Investigating the role of inconsistencies during students' self-designed experiments (abstract: web pdf) (transcripts: #1 #2)

October 12: Luke Conlin -- Conflict in Scientific Inquiry Discussions (abstract: web) (transcript)

October 26: Discussion of Chapter 5 (pdf) from Dennett (1991) "Consciousness Explained" -- question: what is the Cartesian Theater and what does rejecting it mean for education research?  Also, Jen Richards with a video clip of a 6th-grade science teacher -- question: what epistemological messages may students and/or teachers be receiving about science? (abstract: web) (transcript)

November 9: Colleen Gillespie & the MSP^2 research group -- Exploring the stability of a teacher's goals during an inquiry lesson (transcript)

November 23: Jen Richards -- Exploring the relationship between teachers' views of students and their practices of attending to the substance of student thinking (abstract: web) (transcript)

December 7: Dan Levin, topic TBA

Jason Yip; sometime in spring

Ghosts of Seminars Past: Fall '08  Spring '09

Suggestions?

If you have any ideas about a speaker to invite or a paper to read or anything else regarding the seminar, please put it here:

suggested speakers:

Joel Kuipers, Dept. of Anthropology, The George Washington University

Zaynep Tufekci, Dept. Sociology & Anthropology, UMBC

suggested readings: 

• "Multiple Drafts Versus the Cartesian Theater", Chapter 5 (pp 101-138) in Dennett, D. (1991). Consciousness Explained. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Co. (pdf)
• Viechnicki, G. B., & Kuipers, J. (2006).  "It's all human error!": When a school science experiment fails. Linguistics and Education. 17(2), 107-130.  (pdf)
• Pinker, S. (2007). The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature. New York: Viking. (pdf coming soon)
• Schoenfeld, A. H. (2002). A highly interactive discourse structure. Social Constructivist Teaching, 9, 131-169. (pdf)
• (your suggestion goes here)