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Dear colleagues,
We have an opening for a funded doctoral research student position
at WMU beginning this fall. Please see the announcement below and forward to
anyone who might be interested. Questions or replies should be sent directly to
Charles Henderson ([log in to unmask]).
Cheers,
Heather
From:
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Please
distribute this opportunity to anyone who might be interested.
We have
an opening for a graduate student research assistant to join our top-ranked
program in Science Education at Western Michigan University (http://www.wmich.edu/science).
Applicants with a bachelors degree may apply to the concurrent-enrollment
program that allows them to earn a M.A. degree in a science discipline from a
WMU science department and a Ph.D. in Science Education from the Mallinson
Institute for Science Education. Applicants who already have a masters
degree can apply directly to the Ph.D. program.
Graduate
Research Assistant Needed to Study Institution-Wide Transformation of
Introductory Science Labs
WMU
researcher
Charles Henderson has been contracted to study the implementation and impact of
a major science reform effort at Iowa State University. With support from
the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Iowa State is planning to change their
introductory science labs to allow students to pose meaningful questions (as
opposed to traditional ‘cookbook’ style labs). Environmental issues
will be a major overarching theme of the project. See http://www.hhmi.org/news/iastate20100520.html for more details
about the larger program.
A
graduate student research assistant is needed to work on this project.
The position will start in September 2010 and last for four years. The
goal of the project is to study how and to what extent these changes become
institutionalized at Iowa State as well as barriers and affordances to such
institutionalization. Project activities will include conducting
interviews and surveys with key stakeholders, targeted observations, as well as
analysis of project documents. If you are interested in finding out more
about this project, please contact Dr. Charles Henderson at [log in to unmask]. Successful applicants must
meet the enrollment criteria for the graduate program in Science Education at
the Western Michigan University Mallinson Institute for Science Education (more
details at http://www.wmich.edu/science).
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Charles Henderson
Associate Professor, Physics and Science Education
Western Michigan University
http://homepages.wmich.edu/~chenders/
Physics Education Research Editor, American Journal of Physics
Fulbright Scholar, Finnish Institute for Educational Research
University of Jyväskylä
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