The Department of Physics, Astronomy & Geosciences invites all to attend the Sabbatical Talk by Dr. Pamela Lottero-Perdue, Friday, October 3, 2014.
Failure is an anticipated part of the engineering design process. Engineers learn from failure and even design for failure. In this respect, failure is a normative condition and essential aspect of engineering. Elementary engineering education importantly aims to engage students in engineering design experiences that emulate “real” engineering in age-appropriate ways. However, failure – the word, label, and experience – is typically construed in a negative way for schools, teachers and students (e.g., schools being identified as “failing schools”). Given this intersection of contexts and meanings, Dr. Lottero-Perdue is leading research across multiple states, hundreds of teachers, and thousands of students – using large-scale surveys, in-depth interviews, and classroom observations – to study teacher and student perspectives on and responses to failure. Her first paper produced from this line of research was selected as the Best Paper for the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education conference.
Time: 11am – Noon
Location: SM 420 – All invited
For further information contact: Physics, Astronomy & Geosciences Dept. 410-704-3020.
