Race and Physics Teaching
Articles from The Physics Teacher, September - December 2017
This cover image evokes the theme of this fall's special collection: "Race and Physics Teaching." The relay runners, shown over a rich backdrop of iconic physics images, appear in many shades and varieties of body types to reflect the inherent non-binary nature of race and gender, subjects that are far too often treated as strictly binary. What aspects of this mosaic speak to you as a teacher?
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Editorial Introduction
In their editorial, , Geraldine L. Cochran and Gary D. White observe:
We all have privilege. Some of the privilege we have is by choice and we put forth effort to attain, such as the privilege that comes with our level of education. Other privileges we have may be the result of no effort on our part;we may have privileges based on the country where we were born, the race with which we identify or are identified by others, or the language we first learned to speak, among other things. For many, we have a sense of pride in the privileges that come with the things we worked to attain such as our level of education. It can be a little harder to grapple with the privileges that were handed to us, so to speak. It is even harder to come to terms with the reality that the privileges that were handed to us influenced our ability to gain things for which we may have worked hard to obtain.
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Articles in This Collection
, Abigail Daane, Sierra Decker, and Vashti Sawtelle
,Wilson J. Gonz谩lez-Espada and Rosa E. Carrasquillo
, Dimitri R. Dounas-Frazer, Simone A. Hyater-Adams, and Daniel L.Reinholz
, Mel S. Sabella, Kristy L. Mardis,Nicolette Sanders, and Angela Little
, Angela Johnson, Maria Ong, Lily T. Ko,Janet Smith, and Apriel Hodari
, Rosemary S. Russ
, Richard Paul Hechter and Nayif Awad
, The Physics Teacher 55, 394 (2017), Rachel E. Scherr and Amy D. Robertson
, The Physics Teacher 55, 456 (2017), Apama Venkatesan and Adam Burgasser
Additional Resources
Race and Physics Teaching Continued May 2020-January 2021
, by Gary White. The original call for manuscripts, published in The Physics Teacher.
, by Moses Rifkin, This paper an important contribution to the subject from The Physics Teacher, part of the inspiration for the call for papers,
Supporting and Enhancing Diversity and Inclusiveness in 91撸色 (PDF) -- Report accepted by the Board of Directors on February 18, 2017.
(2016) by the 91撸色 Committee on Diversity published in The Physics Teacher 54, 326 (2016).
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