Call for Special Issue on Rural STEM Teacher Development

STEM Teaching and Learning in Rural Communities: Exploring Challenges and Opportunities

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Keywords:

rural education, STEM education, teacher professional development, rural education, STEM education, teacher professional development

Abstract

This special issue is on STEM Teaching and Learning in Rural Communities: Exploring Challenges and Opportunities.

Guest Editors are:
Janet K. Stramel, Ph.D. (Fort Hays State University) and Earl Legleiter (Fort Hays State University).

Author Biographies

Janet K. Stramel, Ft. Hayes State University

Dr. Janet Stramel is the Edna Shutts Williams Endowed Chair in the College of Education at Fort Hays State University. She is an associate professor of teacher education at Fort Hays State. Education in the STEM subjects – science, technology, engineering and mathematics ­– has been a focus of Stramel’s in her work for the 100Kin10 Project, a national initiative to “prepare and support 100,000 excellent STEM teachers in America’s classrooms.”

Earl Legleiter, Fort Hays State University

Earl Legleiter is Director of the Science and Mathematics Education Institute.  He received a BS in Biology in 1977 from the University of Kansas and a Master’s Degree in Advanced Educational Programs – Science from Fort Hays State University in 2016.  He is from Denver, Colorado he lives with wife Leslie, and enojys spending time with his two adult children and six grandchildren.

Forsyth Library 035
(785) 628-4561
eflegleiter@fhsu.edu

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2021-06-17

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Stramel, J. K., & Legleiter, E. (2021). Call for Special Issue on Rural STEM Teacher Development: STEM Teaching and Learning in Rural Communities: Exploring Challenges and Opportunities. Theory & Practice in Rural Education, 11(1). Retrieved from https://tpre.ecu.edu/index.php/tpre/article/view/783

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Vol. 11 No. 1 (2021): Theory & Practice in Rural Education

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