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Scholar. Educator. Scientist.

Welcome!

Dr. Symone A. Gyles

I am an Assistant Professor of Science Education in the School of Education at the University of California, Irvine.

 

I specialize in community-based and culturally-responsive science pedagogy and curriculum design using co-design methods and community-engaged research. Generally, my research commits to re-designing and re-imagining K-12 science education and curriculum as a space that engages students’ home, community and cultural knowledge, experiences and values as assets in science learning.

Specifically my research focuses on: 

  • Investigating the intersections of community-based science, environmental justice and social justice to promote equitable science teaching and learning 

  • The process of creating and impact of designed curriculum and pedagogies that utilize lenses of culture, power, and justice

  • Re-designing and re-imagining K-12 science learning as a space that engages students’ home, community and cultural knowledge, experiences and values as assets

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University of California, Irvine

401 E. Peltason Dr.
Irvine, CA 92617

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