Early Career Research Fellow - Rachel Gisewhite
Implementing Organization
The University of Southern Mississippi
Overview
DWH Project Funding
$76,000
Known Leveraged Funding
$0
Funding Organization
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine – Gulf Research Program (NASEM - GRP)
Funding Program
NASEM Gulf Research Program Grants
Details
Project Category
Human and Social
Project Actions
Education and Outreach
Targeted Resources
Project Description
Dr. Rachel Gisewhite is an Assistant Professor in the Center for STEM Education at the University of Southern Mississippi. Her research focuses on authentic scientific inquiry experiences that increase scientific literacy and provide K-12 students, preservice teachers, and community members with an understanding of their place in the social and natural world, the recognition of their responsibility for their collective and individual actions, and a charge to act with generosity to remediate or protect that which they are exploring. Examples of her ongoing research include using community-driven and citizen science to encourage 6-12 grade students from vulnerable communities along the Mississippi Gulf Coast to critically examine the nexus of historical, social, scientific, and civic dimensions of environmental justice in their communities; investigating the role environmental service-learning in university classes across multiple disciplines has on undergraduate students' predisposed environmental attitudes; and exploring how community partners work with pre-service teachers to teach intentionally integrated community-driven practices of urban heat island mitigation efforts through academic service-learning coursework in the interest of building long-term, equity-driven resilience in frontline communities across the Gulf South. She has taught high school chemistry and environmental science in Georgia and Tennessee. She received her B.S. in Marine Sciences from the University of South Carolina, an M.Ed. in Science Education from the University of Georgia, an M.S. in Hydrographic Sciences from the University of Southern Mississippi, and a Ph.D. in Science Education from the University of Georgia.
Contact
Rachel GisewhiteNone
rachel.gisewhite@usm.edu
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