Speaker
Description
In the vision to increase the number of African astronomers and related STEM professionals, strengthening undergraduate astronomy education is a crucial (and often overlooked) piece. BLUEshift Africa is a project designed to address this need. BLUEshift’s cornerstone is two-day workshops on undergraduate astronomy teaching for early-career scientists, held at AfAS 2025 and 2026. The main workshop goals are to help participants learn to teach astronomy in more interactive and inclusive ways and to build community around university-level astronomy teaching in Africa. Workshop topics include research-based principles of teaching and learning, teaching to promote equity and inclusion, and active learning techniques such as Think-Pair-Share. We are delighted to share the results from our two years of workshops, the second of which just concluded. We will also share results from our online “Communities of Teaching” sessions with workshop alumni, and from our pilot study of undergraduate astronomy teaching around the continent.
| Stream | Education, Development and Outreach |
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