School of Education Alumna Carrie Allen was nominated for both Best Student Paper and Best Overall Paper out of 100+ submissions at the International Conference of the Learning Sciences held in Singapore from June 20-24.
Her paper titled, “Fighting for Desired Versions of a Future Self: Young African American Women's STEM-related Identity Negotiations in High School," was co-authored with Professor Emerita Margaret Eisenhart. The researchers investigated how the national narrative of increasing opportunities for and broadening participation of young women of color in STEM was taken up locally at one racially diverse, urban high school. Using ethnographic and longitudinal data, they focused on two young women of color as they negotiated and maintained STEM-related identities in the discursive and practice contexts of their lives at school.
Allen graduated in 2016 with her doctorate in Educational Psychology and Learning Sciences — now Learning Sciences and Human Development program. Her research focuses on the relationship between schooling practices, teacher instruction, and student participation and identity in STEM.
First held in 1992 and held bi-annually since 1996, the International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) hosts keynotes, symposia, workshops, panels, submitted paper sessions, poster sessions, and demos covering important issues and reporting research findings across the entire field of the learning sciences. This event brings together researchers from the fields of cognitive science, educational research, psychology, computer science, artificial intelligence, information sciences, anthropology, sociology, neurosciences, and other fields to study learning in a wide variety of formal and informal contexts
This year the National Institute of Education and the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore hosted the 12th annual ICLS: Transforming Learning, Empowering Learners. Several scholars from the CU Boulder School of Education participated in and/or helped support the conference. Joe Polman was a program co-chair, and Professors Polman and Bill Penuel were part of the conference advisory committee.
Related Faculty: Margaret Eisenhart, Joseph Polman, William Penuel