GSEHD alumna Dr. Mary E. ("Beth") Short (Ed.D., Curriculum and Instruction) is a finalist for the 2023 Learning Science Outstanding Student Paper award at the International Society of Learning Science Annual Meeting for her piece, "Integrating Global and Science Education Perspectives on Epistemological Plurality."
Per the paper's abstract:
Recent conversations in learning sciences have pressed the field to attend more explicitly to multiple ways of knowing, or epistemological plurality, as a means for disrupting Northern/Western onto-epistemic supremacy (e.g., Warren et al. 2020). Similar conversations have been taking place in global education with a priority placed on elevating knowledge and ways of knowing from the Global South (de Sousa Santos, 2018). This paper works to integrate these perspectives by asking: How can critical perspectives found in global education literature inform research on student epistemological plurality during science classroom discourse? This paper integrates perspectives from global and science education to present to the field of learning sciences a new approach to considering epistemological plurality in science discourse.