Heather Clark

College of Education
Department of Teacher Education 
Assistant Professor 
hclark@csudh.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Education, University of California, Los Angeles
M.S. Environmental Science, Yale University
B.A. Environmental Studies, Wellesley College

RESEARCH

I am a learning scientist and teacher educator in the College of Education at CSUDH. I teach courses for single and multiple subject teacher candidates on ambitious and equitable science instruction methods for urban schools and diverse students. My scholarship is focused on two lines of inquiry: 1) understanding how youth learn climate science in the pursuit of climate justice and 2) studying how teachers learn to support these pursuits by developing justice-centered science pedagogies. I previously taught middle and high school science, received my PhD in Urban Schooling at UCLA, and was a Postdoctoral Researcher at UC Irvine. As a native Angeleno, I am passionate about place-based learning and working side-by-side with pre-service and in-service teachers to re-imagine schooling for socioecological justice.

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