Thursday, October 24th from 12p-1p
Dr. Raul Orduña Picón’s, Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Chemistry and Biochemistry department is the speaker for the October Lunch and Learn Session. His presentation, “ Re-framing and enacting diversity in science education: the case of college chemistry classrooms” will provide holistic view of diversity at the university level. Dr. Orduña Picón will discuss a conceptual framework that frames diversity as a process that entails inducing, orchestrating, utilizing, valuing, and honoring the heterogeneity of ways of thinking, doing, and being of individuals to learn. To translate commitments to enact diversity in daily teaching practices, specifically in the chemistry classroom, he will analyze culturally relevant pedagogy as a productive tool to encourage students and instructors to develop and leverage a robust repertoire of thoughts, practices, and identities to learn disciplinary concepts and solve problems that matter to students. This event is open to the WPI community.
