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| Abstract Title: | Student discourse about equity in an introductory college physics course |
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| Abstract: | In a typical introductory college calculus-based physics course, the makeup of the classroom looks much like the physics community: it includes few women and even fewer underrepresented minorities. This lack of representation is well known, but is rarely an explicit topic of conversation in physics courses. In an introductory physics course at Seattle Pacific University, I facilitated several activities aimed at raising student awareness about the disparity between the demographics of the physics community and the demographics of the general population. Students had the opportunity to discuss and reflect about what it means to do physics, who does it, and why particular groups of people are not equitably represented in the field. In this presentation, I share the sequence of activities used and preliminary findings about the impact of and response to these activities. |
| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
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| Primary Contact: |
Abigail Daane Seattle Pacific University 3307 3rd Ave West Seattle, WA 98119 Phone: 5104075239 |
