Inclusive Science: Articulating Theory, Practice, and Action
Changing science by bringing together scholars in the areas of feminist critique,
critical and liberative pedagogies, and activism in science
critical and liberative pedagogies, and activism in science
This conference took place in June of 2008 at St. Catherine University (then, the College of St. Catherine), home to the largest women’s college in the nation, a place where women have been educated in science and mathematics for over 100 years.
The conference was organized around three themes:
This conference was designed to help scholars in and of the sciences share existing knowledge and ideas; develop strategies for disseminating their theory, pedagogies, and activism; and discuss ways to go forward. We hope this website will do the same.
The conference was organized around three themes:
- Multiple Frameworks: critiques of science from multiple perspectives including gender, race and ethnicity, and class;
- Pedagogies that engage women, students of color, and students from a variety of social classes in the sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM); and
- Transformation: putting theory into action; changing the way we do, learn, and teach about science.
This conference was designed to help scholars in and of the sciences share existing knowledge and ideas; develop strategies for disseminating their theory, pedagogies, and activism; and discuss ways to go forward. We hope this website will do the same.
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Marlene Zuk, Professor of Biology and the Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Equity and Diversity at the University of California-Riverside, is an evolutionary biologist who studies sexual selection in a variety of animals. She is also interested in how human attitudes about gender influence the interpretation of animal behavior. Dr. Zuk is the author of numerous scientific articles as well as the books Sexual Selections: What We Can and Can’t Learn About Sex from Animals and Riddled with Life: Friendly Worms, Lady Bug Sex and the Parasites that Make Us Who We Are and has been a guest of National Public Radio.
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Dr. Sue V. Rosser received her Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1973. Since July 1999, she has served as Dean of Ivan Allen College, the liberal arts college at Georgia Institute of Technology, where she is also Professor of Public Policy and of History, Technology, and Society. She holds the endowed Ivan Allen Dean’s Chair of Liberal Arts and Technology.
She has edited collections and written approximately 120 journal articles on the theoretical and applied problems of women and science and women’s health. Author of ten books including: Female-Friendly Science (1990) , Women, Science, and Society: The Crucial Union (2000), and The Science Glass Ceiling: Academic Women Scientists and their Struggle to Succeed (2004). Her latest book is Women, Gender, and Technology (2006), co-edited with Mary Frank Fox and Deborah Johnson. |
Scholar, teacher, author, administrator and race relations expert Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum is the ninth president of Spelman College. Dr. Tatum is a clinical psychologist whose areas of research interest include black families in white communities, racial identity in teens, and the role of race in the classroom.
In her critically acclaimed 1997 book, “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” and Other Conversations about Race, she applies her expertise on race to argue that straight talk about racial identity is essential to the nation. Her latest book, Can We Talk about Race? and Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation, released in 2007, explores the social and educational implications of the growing racial isolation in our public schools. |