2016 Recipient Christopher Emdin Teachers College, Columbia University
Dr. Christopher Emdin investigates the connections between urban youth culture and science education in schools, arguing that urban youth come to the classroom with what he terms “science mindedness” or “habits of mind and spirit of science.” He is committed to recruiting and retaining previously alienated youth to science and mathematics. His scholarly accomplishments include 2 books, 21 refereed journal articles, and 10 book chapters. He has been named a STEM Access Champion of Change by the White House (2015), an Ambassador of the Minorities in Energy Initiative by the U.S. Department of Energy (2015), and a Cultural Ambassador for STEM Education by the U.S. State Department (2014–2015). In addition, he has published a series of advocacy pieces for the Huffington Post and a TED talk, “Teach Teachers How to Create Magic,” with over 1.5 million views online. In 2011, Dr. Emdin won the Teachers College Strage Junior Faculty Prize for his 2009 book Urban Science Education for the Hip-Hop Generation.
This award is to recognize a scholar who has conducted a distinguished program of cumulative educational research in any field of educational inquiry within the first decade following receipt of their doctoral degree.
2015 - Brendesha M. Tynes 2014 - Sara Goldrick-Rab 2014 - Mary Helen Immordino-Yang 2013 - Michael N. Bastedo 2012 - Maisha T. Winn 2011 - Cynthia E. Coburn 2010 - Guofang Li 2009 - Michele Moses & Nell K. Duke 2008 - Andrew J. Martin 2007 - Jaekyung Lee 2006 - Kevin G. Welner 2005 - Amanda Datnow 2004 - Geoffrey D. Borman & Janette K. Klingner 2003 - Yong Zhao 2002 - No award presented 2001 - Stanton E.F. Wortham 2000 - Amy Stuart Wells 1999 - Peter Smagorinsky 1998 - Vanessa Siddle-Walker 1997 - Deborah Loewenberg Ball 1996 - Leona Schauble 1995 - Janet Wilde Astington 1994 - Lisa Delpit & Stephen W. Raudenbush 1993 - D. Jean Clandinin 1992 - Judith D. Singer & John B. Willett 1991 - Edward H. Haertel, Magdalene Lampert, Annemarie Palincsar 1990 - Jeannie Oakes 1989 - Kenneth Tobin 1988 - Robert Mislevy 1987 - Noreen M. Webb 1986 - Penelope L. Peterson 1985 - Robert E. Slavin 1984 - Harris M.