SESSION TYPE: Featured Speaker SESSION TITLE: Rethinking Student Participation: A Model from Hip-Hop and Urban Science Education STRAND: STEM DAY: Friday TIME: 8:30 - 9:30 am LOCATION: Sutton Parlor North, 2nd floor

Full participation in the classroom is a significant, yet under-focused upon component of teaching and learning. This presentation describes how educators often inhibit students from enacting practices that support participation while they concurrently support practices that indicate peripheral or superficial involvement in the classroom.

Though an exploration of hip-hop culture and recent research in urban science education, I discuss ways that participants in hip-hop provide insight into improving classroom interest and participation.

***BOOK SIGNING AT ONSITE BARNES & NOBLE BOOKSTORE TO FOLLOW SESSION (click here for schedule)

BIOGRAPHY

Christopher Emdin is a Professor of Science Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He was recently awarded ASTE’s Best paper for Innovation in Teaching Science Teachers, and both PDK’s Outstanding Dissertation Award and Emerging Leader Award. His research focuses on improving urban and science education.