Samuel Cornelius Nyarko

Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis | IUPUI

The need to train a climate change science workforce in order to mitigate the impacts of climate change is driving a need for climate change education in many countries, including Ghana. The idea that climate change results from ozone holes allowing more ultraviolet solar radiation to reach the Earth is very common among students at all levels. The...

Ethics is central to scientific and engineering research and practice, but a key challenge for promoting students’ ethical formation involves enhancing faculty members’ ability and confidence in embedding positive ethical learning experiences into their curriculums. To this end, this paper explores changes in faculty members’ approaches to and perc...

Meaningful learning resources for earthquake safety and survival have become an increasingly important topic among geoscientists, especially educators and researchers. Various members of the public, especially K-12 (ages 5–18) learners, continue to depend on scientific trade books available at their local public and school libraries for information...

This study examines the outcomes of a four-year faculty learning community (FLC) that aimed to transform departmental ethics curriculum by supporting Earth Sciences faculty members as they ethically inquired into their teaching of ethics and refined existing courses in alignment with an Integrated Community-Engaged Learning and Ethical Reflection (...

Background The objective of this systematic review is to identify characteristics, trends, and gaps in measurement in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education research. Methods We searched across several peer-reviewed sources, including a book, similar systematic reviews, conference proceedings, one online repository, and...

Training students to become ethical geoscientists has generated significant interest, particularly when confronted with the need to consider geoscience practice in light of geo-technological advances and environmental issues associated with resource extraction, pollution, and climate change. In this research, we examine from the perspective of stud...

An earthquake is one of the most important and complex natural hazards that humanity continues to face. In the United States alone, over 140 million people live in earthquake-prone areas, with one-third of this risk on the West Coast. Earthquake education has become increasingly important at a time when many countries are making earthquake early wa...

Teamwork has been identified as an essential employability skill and learning outcome in the geosciences, especially during fieldwork. Although specific teamwork skills have been identified in prior research, few studies to date have addressed how students develop or use these skills during their educational preparation in science, technology, engi...

Current science education efforts emphasise the need to train students to understand the nature of scientific work. In geosciences, training students to understand how science works does not only promote their interest and community engagement in the field, but also has the potential to promote awareness and ethics. However, instructional activitie...

Practitioners and researchers in geoscience education embrace collaboration applying ICON (Integrated, Coordinated, Open science, and Networked) principles and approaches which have been used to create and share large collections of educational resources, to move forward collective priorities, and to foster peer‐learning among educators. These stra...

Geoscience employers have increasingly called for the future workforce (students) to demonstrate competence in non-technical skills, including teamwork. This descriptive qualitative study contributes to ongoing efforts to identify the specific practices, skills, habits, and knowledge that make up these desired teamwork competencies in the geoscienc...

Faculty-staff learning communities (FSLCs) are collaborative, and often cross-disciplinary, communities of practice where discourse, discussion, and critical reflection are used to improve teaching practice. Two case studies are presented: a 4-year FSLC at an R1 research university with engineering and earth science faculty and a 1-year FSLC at a s...

Current science education efforts emphasize the need to train students to understand the influence of society and culture in science. In the geosciences, training students to understand this domain of science does not only promote their interest and community engagement in the field, but also has the potential to promote awareness about diversity,...

Formally incorporating geoethics into traditional geoscience courses can seem an intimidating and time-consuming prospect. Faculty members of IUPUI’s Department of Earth Sciences have participated in a multi-year NSF-funded project organized around a faculty learning community guided by experts in ethics and community engaged learning. Each individ...

For over four decades the geosciences have strived to increase its diversity with limited success. This means that the geoscience field continues to lag despite the many benefits that a diverse community can provide. Additionally, equity and justice have the potential to enhance community and institutional policies, recruitment and retention of sys...

An earthquake is one of the most important and complex natural hazards that humanity continues to face. In the United States alone, over 140 million people live in earthquake-prone areas, with one-third of this risk on the West Coast. Earthquake education has become increasingly important at a time when many countries are making earthquake early wa...

Despite the identification of teamwork as an essential employability skill and learning outcome in the geosciences, information relating to explicit practices and how students develop teamwork skills during their educational preparation is scant in the STEM literature, including the geosciences. There is a lack of consensus concerning the dimension...

Training a scientific workforce in order to mitigate the impacts of climate change drives an international need for climate science education, including in Ghana. How preservice teachers understand climate change, and the often misunderstood relationship between ozone depletion and global warming, critically impacts the students they will teach. Th...

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As much as we think of a geologic map as objective, it is filtered through the experiences of individual geologists and the larger geology community. Thus it is important to understand how geologists become proficient at geologic mapping. As part of a naturalistic study of mapping strategies, 67 geologists ranging from undergraduates to professiona...