Elaine V. Howes

Elaine V. Howes received her PhD in curriculum, teaching, and educational policy from Michigan State University. Her career in education includes 4 years of high school teaching and 16 years as a teacher educator and researcher at MSU; Teachers College, Columbia University; and the University of South Florida. Elaine wrote Connecting Girls and Science: Feminism, Constructivism, and Science Education Reform (Teachers College Press, 2002), a book based on her high school teaching and influenced by both feminist and constructivist science education perspectives. Elaine’s work with preservice and inservice teachers has led to publications focusing on teachers’ practices in working with English Language learners in science, elementary preservice students’ visions of science and science teaching, and the challenges involved in developing environmentally and culturally relevant science curriculum for K–8 classrooms. She is on the faculty of an innovative master of art in teaching program at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, helping to educate new Earth science teachers who will study and work in high-needs schools, thus continuing her established interest in working with teachers and students to develop teaching that supports all students in succeeding in science.