Pushing the Frontiers of Inclusive STEM Education
STEM education is an important gatekeeper for individual educational attainment and economic success as well as for national innovation and competition. Unfortunately, access to high-quality STEM education remains unevenly distributed.
The RISE Postdoctoral Training Program was built upon the proposition that the path to improving STEM learning outcomes more broadly requires recognizing that existing views of learning are based on limited beliefs and visions about what can be learned, who can learn and how learning occurs. The scientific community needs to train and empower researchers who are competent in, and can further develop, cutting-edge theory and methods that identify and disrupt these beliefs and that serve as the basis for crafting more effective pedagogies and interventions.
Our approach integrates a holistic learning framework, featuring the RISE principles (Nasir et al., 2021), into a model for postdoctoral training that prepares the next generation of STEM education researchers.
The RISE principles hold that learning is:
Rooted
Rooted in basic biological and cognitive processes
Integrated
Integrated with socioemotional and identity development
Situated
Situated in and shaped by social and cultural contexts
Experienced
Experienced as embodied and socially coordinated
Interested in becoming a RISE Fellow?
The RISE Postdoctoral Training Program is seeking applicants who want to:
Push the frontiers of STEM education.
Achieve sustained impacts by ensuring greater participation in STEM by a broad swath of leaners
