Research & Action Annual Report 2017

In October 2017, Peggy Mcintosh, Ph.D., WCW senior research scientist and founder of the National SEED Project, gave presentations and conducted a day-long workshop on systems of privilege in Japan. The events were held at Sophia University in Tokyo, the Osaka campus of Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, and the Dawn Center: Osaka Prefectual Center for Youth and Gender Equality. The primary host was Makiko Deguchi, Ph.D., associate professor of Foreign Studies at Sophia University, who is also president of the Society for International Education, Training, and Research in Japan (SIETAR).

For the past two summers, Wellesley College students who are members of the StemKit team, a science education project under the mentorship of Wendy W. Robeson, Ed.D., WCW senior research scientist, have received grants from the College’s Career Education Center to teach science protocols and perform research abroad. Isabella Narvaez (Class of 2017) traveled to Ghana in the summer of 2017 to work with junior high schools in the Greater Accra Region, in partnership with The Exploratory, a non-governmental organization that empowers educators and inspires Ghanaian students to be curious, courageous, and community-minded, by making their experience of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics relevant, collaborative, and equitable.

Global Connections, Privilege Workshops in Japan

Global Connections, StemKit: Learning and Teaching in Ghana

Global Connections, UN Sustainable Development Goal 16

Research & Action Annual Report 2017