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Abstract Title: | From land acknowledgments to action: highlighting the need to engage with Indigenous history in physics teaching |
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Abstract: | In interviews about land acknowledgements, high school physics teachers expressed a number of different ways they had engaged with Indigenous history after learning about and practicing land acknowledgements in a year-long professional learning community. These different ways included situating Indigenous displacement within sociopolitical inequities, connecting physics to historic and current exploitation of Indigenous lands and people, and identifying ways they could incorporate Indigenous history into their physics education curriculum. Throughout the interviews, teachers expressed how they had always viewed Indigenous history and physics as two separate schools of thoughts, but found through their engagement with Indigenous history that both seemed related. This also led to teachers' engagement and advocacy in transforming schools to incorporate Indigenous land acknowledgements. Findings from our interviews highlight the importance and need for physics education research to be more inclusive of Indigenous voices and to bring to the forefront Indigenous histories, people, and perspectives. This will help start bridging the gap that continues to exclude Indigenous peoples and communities from the field of physics. |
Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
Session Time: | Poster Session 2 Room D |
Poster Number: | 2D-16 |
Author/Organizer Information | |
Primary Contact: |
Jessica Hernandez University of Washington, Bothell Bothell, WA |
Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
Rachel Scherr, University of Washington, Bothell |