28 March 2025 | 08:30 - 10:00 (MDT)
Open Session - HYBRID
Room: UMC Fourth Floor - 425
Organisers: Sophie Weeks (Polar Educators International, UK); Alona Yefimenko; Ramcharan Vijayaraghavan
Session Description:
This session will provide a unique bridge for practitioners and researchers to discuss education topics within the ICARPIV RPT6 research planning context, connecting with current research, indigenous knowledge and impactful approaches, techniques and resources for reaching a diverse range of learners.
We Invite informative, interactive and collaborative presentations from all kinds of polar educators, education researchers and Arctic Indigenous knowledge holders that explore and develop interest in Arctic science engagement and
- Knowledge exchange - including innovative, thoughtful and fair ways to share polar knowledge and pedagogies
- Practice-based research to inspire and include diverse learners of all ages,
- Interdisciplinary collaboration to amplify the impact of Arctic knowledges and science research in local, national and international communities
Presentations will examine how practice based polar education research enables
- Teaching about the polar regions by educators outside the Arctic
- Education practitioners working Inside the Arctic circumpolar (language, i methods,
- Arctic educators engaging audiences beyond the Arctic
A facilitated panel discussion and interaction with participants will
- define key areas of need for educator practice-based research
- define the need for an evaluation framework for Arctic polar science impact through pedagogical practice in the Circumpolar and beyond
- Map the Interdisciplinary relationship between Polar education practice and education research for in and about the Arctic