Published: June 24, 2016

School of Education AlumnaÌýCarrie AllenÌýwas nominatedÌýfor both Best Student Paper and Best Overall PaperÌýout of 100+ submissions at theÌýInternational Conference of the Learning Sciences heldÌýin Singapore from June 20-24.

Her paperÌýtitled,Ìý“Fighting for Desired Versions of a Future Self: Young African American Women's STEM-related Identity Negotiations in High School," was co-authored with Professor EmeritaÌýMargaret Eisenhart.ÌýThe researchers investigated how the national narrative of increasing opportunities for and broadening participation of young women of color in STEM was taken up locally at one raciallyÌýdiverse, urban high school. Using ethnographic and longitudinal data, they focused on two young women of color as they negotiated and maintained STEM-related identities in the discursive and practice contexts of their lives at school.Ìý

Allen graduated inÌý2016Ìýwith her doctorate inÌýEducational Psychology and Learning SciencesÌý—ÌýnowÌýLearning Sciences and Human DevelopmentÌýprogram. Her research focusesÌýon the relationship between schooling practices, teacher instruction, and student participation and identity in STEM.

First held in 1992 and held bi-annually since 1996, (ICLS) hosts keynotes, symposia, workshops, panels, submitted paper sessions, poster sessions, and demos covering important issues and reporting research findings across the entire field of the learning sciences. This event brings together researchers from the fields of cognitive science, educational research, psychology, computer science, artificial intelligence, information sciences, anthropology, sociology, neurosciences, and other fields to study learning in a wide variety of formal and informal contexts

This year the and the hosted the 12th annual ICLS:ÌýTransforming Learning, Empowering Learners.ÌýSeveral scholars from the ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ School of Education participated inÌýand/or helped support the conference.Ìý´³´Ç±ðÌý±Ê´Ç±ô³¾²¹²Ô was a program co-chair, and ProfessorsÌýPolmanÌýand Bill Penuel were part of the conference advisory committee.Ìý

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Related Faculty: Margaret Eisenhart, Joseph Polman, William Penuel