The Center for Research on Expanding Educational Opportunity (CREEO): California Black Studies Curriculum (CABSC) Undergraduate Research Apprentice
Travis Bristol, Professor
Education
Applications for Fall 2024 are closed for this project.
Background: The Center for Research on Expanding Educational Opportunity (CREEO), launched by Faculty Director Travis J. Bristol, at UC Berkeley School of Education, uses research to shape policy and practice in service of creating opportunities for students and adults historically at the margins to move closer to the center in the United States and internationally.
One of the programs at CREEO is: the California Black Studies Curriculum (CABSC), under the direction of Dr. Travis J. Bristol and Dr. Tolani Britton, focuses on developing a California-centric Black studies curriculum. It draws from the groundbreaking work of the state’s reparations task force, aiming to create a cohesive and modular curriculum for educators and students.
Contributions, taken from educators and students, and taken together, will assist the curriculum development pilot team members, and will constitute California's first Black Studies Curriculum.
If these topics, (educators, students, curriculum development, Black studies, ethnic studies) and issues interest you, then you are perfect for this project!
This URAP project will focus on the CABSC and its continued development towards piloting. The main goals of the URAP project are to support the CABSC team with: 1) advancing the curriculum development, as a 2nd round of curriculum design will undergo in Fall 2024, and 2) engaging in the research project designed to to understand the experiences of the educators most intimately involved in the curriculum project 3) identifying potential schools as pilot sites
Qualifications: Research apprentices will receive guidance and work with the CREEO team and/or lead researcher, to support outreach, curriculum collection, and review of materials and surveys, and collecting demographic data on potential school sites.The undergraduate will help in identifying trends across educators’ experiences, and also help in identifying potential pilot school sites for the Black studies curriculum.This can offer insightful research on the design of the curriculum development, and also which California schools to first collaborate with for piloting.
Research apprentices will collaborate with the CREEO Team and also be able to work independently carrying out the following tasks below.
Support and or conduct impactful research that addresses gaps in knowledge related to educator ethnoracial diversity and educational equity as part of the CABSC Project:
This may include but is not limited to:
Collecting qualitative data
Conducting Interviews and focus groups, observations
Cleaning and transcribing data
Analyzing data
Assisting with preparation of information for dissemination manuscripts for publication in peer review journals
Assisting with preparation policy briefs
Participating in scheduled research meetings
Keep a adequate safeguards to protect the confidentiality of the information collected in accordance with UCB and CREEO Guidelines – see New security standards that went into effect on April 1
As part of their hour/commitment, research assistants will meet weekly and attend CREEO team meetings (one hour per week) and/or the project director
Specific qualifications the student should have:
• Knowledgeable of the public education system in California
Willingness to learn and acquire additional information to support the project.
• Familiarity with Ethnic or African studies and interest in topic
• Have some Familiarity with data cleaning
• Have some familiarity with topics, issues, and experiences related to teachers and student experiences, education, and communities of color (e.g., coursework, personal experience).
• There is no additional language requirement,
• Lab days for this project are: TBD.
Day-to-day supervisor for this project: Melika Jallili, Staff Researcher
Hours: 6-8 hrs
Off-Campus Research Site: Hybrid position
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