Science Education Post-Doctoral Fellow Joins Faculty in 2009-2010

Howard Glasser is joining the Education Program faculty in 2009-2010 as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Science Education. In addition to teaching secondary science and mathematics classes, he has taught undergraduate teacher education courses that focused on educational psychology, the role schools and other social institutions play in the social construction and maintenance of diversity and inequality, and science education for pre-service secondary science teachers who were in classrooms during their yearlong internship.

His main professional interests are in equity, social justice, and under-representation issues in education, primarily science and mathematics education. His dissertation focused on equity issues in an all-boy science class and an all-girl science class in a public middle school, examining what it meant to be a boy or girl in this setting and what it meant to learn science as boys and girls in this program. Additionally, his work with the National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity's STEM Equity Pipeline Project has him providing training and technical assistance for members of different states’ public education systems to increase their ability to act as vehicles for female students to enter careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).

Howard received a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and Educational Technology from Michigan State University, an M.Ed. in a Secondary Education-Science Certification Program from Temple University, and a B.A. in Physics with a Concentration in Educational Studies from Haverford College.