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resource research Informal/Formal Connections

National Action Plan for Addressing the Critical Needs of the U.S. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education System

This action plan lays out a structure that will allow stakeholders from local, State, and Federal governments, as well as nongovernmental STEM education stakeholder groups, to work together to coordinate and enhance the Nation's ability to produce a numerate and scientifically and technologically literate society and to increase and improve the current STEM education workforce. Strategies for producing the next generation of innovators are not explicitly addressed in this action plan and will require subsequent study. A coherent system of STEM education is essential to the Nation's economy and
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TEAM MEMBERS: National Science Foundation
resource research Media and Technology

Diverse Learning and Learner Diversity in "Informal" Science Learning Environments

This paper lays out a theory of (re-)generative learning to explain how families and communities socialize young learners into thinking like scientists and mathematicians. Cultural communities and their families orient their young in varied ways toward the language, behaviors, and self-theories about the future presupposed in the learning of science and mathematics. Certain socialization processes and norms correspond closely with those that scientists and artists use in laboratories, studios, and rehearsals. Certain norms of politeness and patterns of language differ significantly from habits
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TEAM MEMBERS: Shirley Heath
resource research Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks

Learning In and Out of School in Diverse Environments: Life-long, Life-wide, Life-deep

Learning In and Out of School in Diverse Environments is the product of a two-year project during which a panel convened by the LIFE Center (an NSF Science of Learning Center) and the Center for Multicultural Education identified important principles that educational practitioners, policy makers, and future researchers can use to build upon the learning that occurs in the homes and community cultures of students from diverse groups. This report lays out an argument for focusing on cross setting learning as key to equity in STEM education.
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TEAM MEMBERS: The LIFE Center (The Learning in Informal and Formal Enivronments Center) University of Washington James Banks Kathryn Au Arnetha Ball Philip Bell Edmund Gordon Kris Gutierrez Shirley Heath Carol Lee Yuhshi Lee Jabari Mahiri Na'ilah Suad Nasir Guadalupe Valdes Min Zhou