Session:
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Lecture/Classroom
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Paper Type:
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Poster
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Title:
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What Can It Look Like?: Physics Teaching for Social Justice
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Meeting:
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2016 Summer Meeting: Sacremento, California |
Location:
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N/A |
Date:
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Time:
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5:00PM
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Author:
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Moses Rifkin, University Prep
206-856-7386, mrifkin@universityprep.org
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Co-Author(s):
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None
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Abstract:
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Only 4% of professional physicists identify as black or African American, a number far smaller than the 12% of the Americans that do, and this underrepresentation is more dramatic in physics than it is in most scientific disciplines. I have developed a curriculum that uses these and other statistics as a jumping-off point for my high school students to explore issues of race, access, and culture in physics. I will share my experiences from a decade of using the curriculum, including how my students respond, how I address the challenges that have arisen, and how this curriculum has evolved. In doing so, I hope both to model the integration of physics teaching and social justice and to motivate attendees to take steps in their own classes.
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Footnotes:
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None
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Presentation:
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AAPT Invited Panel Presentation.pptx
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