Supporting economically disadvantaged students from Nicaragua in STEM-C fields
| Autor: | Mislav Grgic, Iva Bojic, Vedran Podobnik, Juan F. Arratia |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Research program
Coping (psychology) business.industry Computer science Best practice 05 social sciences 050209 industrial relations Informal education Public relations Project-based learning informal and formal education Puerto Rico project based learning Electronic mail Disadvantaged Social group General partnership 0502 economics and business Pedagogy ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION business 050203 business & management Disadvantage |
| Zdroj: | FIE |
| Popis: | Even students who are provided with currently best available education in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (STEM-C) fields are having problems coping with living in the modern world where technological advancements happen on a daily basis, let alone students coming from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. In a world where institutions offering formal education have to collaborate with individuals and groups of people interested in providing informal education, it is of a vital importance to set up good examples and share them with communities that are less experienced. In this paper we present how Student Research Development Center's (SRDC) best practices of establishing a pre-college pipeline for young economically disadvantage minority students, who are interested in STEM-C fields, from Puerto Rico are being transferred to Universidad Catolica de Nicaragua (UNICA). The goal of the paper is to show how we developed a partnership between Puerto Rico and Nicaragua, and used lessons learned in Puerto Rico to involve undergraduate and pre-college students from Nicaragua in research program using project based learning in STEM-C fields. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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