Science education - M.A.
The masters program in science education is designed to prepare scholars to conduct thoughtful research in order to assume roles as university faculty members, educational leaders, policy makers, and researchers and to contribute meaningfully to the field. The field of science education is a broad one and includes science and environmental education at the K-12 levels, the College level, in informal and adult settings and in early childhood. Focus areas of research within the science education area are the preparation of pre-service science teachers (K-12), induction and mentoring of beginning science teachers, design and implementation of curricula across the K-college spectrum, environmental education, cooperative learning, and social justice.
Faculty
- Fred Finley
Currently, I am conducting research on students’ conceptions of the earth systems and human interaction with the earth. I am also working on civic engagement studies under a U.S. State Department grant and operating science and mathematics teacher internships in Thailand. - Roger Johnson
I work primarily with teaching science in the elementary school. I am also co-director of the Cooperative Learning Center, primarily involved in research and training educators how to structure cooperation in classrooms and schools. - Gillian Roehrig
I am currently a principal investigator (PI) on a five-year National Science Foundation (NSF) grant looking at the impact of different mentoring and induction programs on the development of beginning secondary science teachers. - Bhaskar Upadhyay
My research interest is not only examining how science teaching and learning can be improved in the classrooms, but also looking at issues of access, ethnicity, and race that surround science education in our urban schools.
Course requirements
May 2006
