Meena M Balgopal
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1571745 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Meena M Balgopal |
| NOMBRES | Meena M |
| APELLIDO | Balgopal |
| FIRMA | BALGOPAL M M |
| AFILIACIONES | Colorado State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3846-9256 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
How Accountability for Climate Change is Framed in Popular Magazines
In this content analysis of articles about climate change published in popular magazines over a two-year period (2020-2022), we examined both textual and visual content from climate change-related articles in National Geographic, Times Magazine and Discovery Magazine. Focusing on accountability and human-nature relationship, and informed by frame theory and agency theory, we identify 10 different accountable actor frames and three human-nature re…
Spurring and siloing
Scientific writing and publication are critical sites where students must navigate between personal identities and presumed scientific objectivity. For non-white student researchers, particularly those stereotyped as ‘model minorities,’ this process involves complex negotiations. This qualitative study examines how Asian and Asian American students navigate their cultural and linguistic identities within scientific writing processes. Using an int…
Introducing undergraduate students to human evolution through eco-immunology
Introduction The benefits of actively engaging students is especially relevant for teaching undergraduate students about evolutionary processes and content. Examining eco-immunological data can help students overcome the naïve conception that humans are not evolving or affected by evolutionary pressures. Methods Here, we used graphical reasoning in two evolution courses (small/honors and large/regular) to teach students about eco-immunology in hu…
An audience segmentation study of native plant gardening behaviors in the United States
Groups: Disengaged, Potential Adopters, Potential Amplifiers, and Potential Advocates. • About half of participants (48%) may be willing to engage in collective behavior. • Tailored public engagement may strengthen perceptions of gardening behaviors. Audience segmentation can be used to identify target audiences in environmental public engagement and communication, but few studies have used segmentation to study biodiversity conservation behavior…
Under pressure
Disruptions to education systems (e.g., the COVID‐19 pandemic) evoke a range of responses from teachers. Teachers are required to learn new skills, attend to students' social emotional needs, modify their instructional approaches, and discover innovative ways to engage their students in science, technology, and engineering courses, all while managing their own professional and personal needs. Although teachers of all disciplines adjust their inst…
Who teaches place-based education
Place-based education (PBE) offers teachers a unique opportunity to increase engagement and academic outcomes while strengthening students' connections to their environment and inspiring future conservation. In most instances, classroom teachers must independently choose to implement PBE, such as when discussing topics surrounding wildlife and the environment. Environmental values orientations of teachers may explain teachers' implementation of P…
Misalignment Between Citizen Science Project Leaders and Their Organizations Increases the Challenges They Face Achieving Project Outcomes
Citizen science values include increasing natural resource management, enabling large-scale research, promoting education and scientific literacy, addressing environmental injustice, mitigating climate change, and more. Project leaders often work toward multiple outcomes at once and must prioritize their focus. Prioritization is complicated given the competing interests of scientists, volunteers, funders, and others. According to role conflict th…
I will survive
As the pandemic began to disrupt school systems in March 2020, teachers were expected to quickly modify their instructional approaches. We recruited science, technology, engineering, and mathematics teachers who were recipients of National Science Foundation scholarships based on their high‐quality academic record and commitment to working in high‐needs school districts to participate in a longitudinal survey study. Participants ( n = 153) gradua…
Wildlife Photographs
OPINION article Front. Educ., 13 July 2022Sec. STEM Education https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2022.910324
Integrating Authentic Research Into the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative
We are at a historic point in which scientists and Tibetan monastics are working together to investigate ancient questions of mind and matter, and to serve the best interests of humanity. To facilitate this collaboration, His Holiness the Dalai Lama supported the development of the Emory University-Tibet Science Initiative (ETSI), which reflects the first major change in the Tibetan monastic curriculum in six centuries. Over the course of a 6-yea…
Identity theory in agriculture
Drawing-to-Learn
Students enter biology classrooms with ideas about the natural world already formed. Teachers can help students construct new knowledge by using active, culturally relevant pedagogy and by making space in their lesson for students to reveal, challenge, and/or reconcile their preconceptions with new knowledge. Drawing meets all of these needs. Drawing-to-learn (DTL) allows students to be metacognitive and creative as they generate concrete represe…
Moving past postcolonial hybrid spaces
In formal learning spaces, students must navigate making meaning of both new knowledge and potentially new worldviews. In this qualitative grounded theory study, we examined how adult Buddhist monastic students learned about and described the origin of biodiversity in an introductory biology course. The study was conducted at a Tibetan settlement in south India during an 8‐day class that was offered as part of joint program between an American un…
Middle school science teachers’ agency to implement place-based education curricula about local wildlife
Environmental education researchers and policy makers acknowledge the need to act responsibly toward the environment. Yet, teachers do not always know how to help students translate environmental knowledge into sustainable action. This study examines the implementation of locally developed place-based education (PBE) curriculum for middle school science classes with the intention of promoting environmentally positive behaviors. Camera traps were …
An integrated livelihoods and well-being framework to understand northeastern Colorado ranchers' adaptive strategies
Bruno, J. E., M. E. Fernandez-Gimenez, and M. M. Balgopal. 2021. An integrated livelihoods and well-being framework to understand northeastern Colorado ranchers' adaptive strategies. Ecology and Society 26(4):27. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12754-260427
How guest experts tell stories about environmental socio-scientific issues in an undergraduate class
To broaden perspectives presented in undergraduate courses, instructors often invite guest speakers, yet there is limited research on students’ perceptions of guest speakers and the potential influence they may have on student learning. In this exploratory study, we describe how senior undergraduate students, in a natural resource management capstone course, perceived guest speakers, who were invited to lecture on environmental socio-scientific i…
STEM teacher agency
Most science curricular reform efforts are designed by administrators or science education experts. It is less common for teachers to work collaboratively across disciplines to create, implement, and disseminate an integrated STEM curriculum developed for noncollege‐bound students that ended up being popular across student populations at the school. The integrated Geometry in Construction curriculum was developed 12 years ago and has since been a…
Conceptual change in natural resource management students’ ecological literacy
Conceptual change in undergraduate capstone courses provides unique opportunities to examine how students draw from multiple courses and experiences to resolve conceptual confusion. We examined how senior-level natural resource management students revised their conceptions of ‘ecosystem’ throughout their capstone course. The concept of ecosystem is complicated by a lack of shared meaning across disciplines. Our grounded theory study analyzed stud…
Fuel for Fun
Clinicaltrials.gov registration number NCT02491294 . Registered 7 July, 2015
Writing to learn ecology
Being an ecologically literate citizen involves making decisions that are based on ecological knowledge and accepting responsibility for personal actions. Using writing-to-learn activities in college science courses, we asked students to consider personal dilemmas that they or others might have in response to how human choices can impact coastal dead zones around the world. We explored how undergraduate students (42 biology and 47 elementary educ…
Identity theory in agriculture
Who teaches place-based education
Place-based education (PBE) offers teachers a unique opportunity to increase engagement and academic outcomes while strengthening students' connections to their environment and inspiring future conservation. In most instances, classroom teachers must independently choose to implement PBE, such as when discussing topics surrounding wildlife and the environment. Environmental values orientations of teachers may explain teachers' implementation of P…
An integrated livelihoods and well-being framework to understand northeastern Colorado ranchers' adaptive strategies
Bruno, J. E., M. E. Fernandez-Gimenez, and M. M. Balgopal. 2021. An integrated livelihoods and well-being framework to understand northeastern Colorado ranchers' adaptive strategies. Ecology and Society 26(4):27. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12754-260427
Conceptual change in natural resource management students’ ecological literacy
Conceptual change in undergraduate capstone courses provides unique opportunities to examine how students draw from multiple courses and experiences to resolve conceptual confusion. We examined how senior-level natural resource management students revised their conceptions of ‘ecosystem’ throughout their capstone course. The concept of ecosystem is complicated by a lack of shared meaning across disciplines. Our grounded theory study analyzed stud…
Writing to learn ecology
Being an ecologically literate citizen involves making decisions that are based on ecological knowledge and accepting responsibility for personal actions. Using writing-to-learn activities in college science courses, we asked students to consider personal dilemmas that they or others might have in response to how human choices can impact coastal dead zones around the world. We explored how undergraduate students (42 biology and 47 elementary educ…
Writing to learn ecology
Being an ecologically literate citizen involves making decisions that are based on ecological knowledge and accepting responsibility for personal actions. Using writing-to-learn activities in college science courses, we asked students to consider personal dilemmas that they or others might have in response to how human choices can impact coastal dead zones around the world. We explored how undergraduate students (42 biology and 47 elementary educ…
Fuel for Fun
Clinicaltrials.gov registration number NCT02491294 . Registered 7 July, 2015
Conceptual change in natural resource management students’ ecological literacy
Conceptual change in undergraduate capstone courses provides unique opportunities to examine how students draw from multiple courses and experiences to resolve conceptual confusion. We examined how senior-level natural resource management students revised their conceptions of ‘ecosystem’ throughout their capstone course. The concept of ecosystem is complicated by a lack of shared meaning across disciplines. Our grounded theory study analyzed stud…
How guest experts tell stories about environmental socio-scientific issues in an undergraduate class
To broaden perspectives presented in undergraduate courses, instructors often invite guest speakers, yet there is limited research on students’ perceptions of guest speakers and the potential influence they may have on student learning. In this exploratory study, we describe how senior undergraduate students, in a natural resource management capstone course, perceived guest speakers, who were invited to lecture on environmental socio-scientific i…
STEM teacher agency
Most science curricular reform efforts are designed by administrators or science education experts. It is less common for teachers to work collaboratively across disciplines to create, implement, and disseminate an integrated STEM curriculum developed for noncollege‐bound students that ended up being popular across student populations at the school. The integrated Geometry in Construction curriculum was developed 12 years ago and has since been a…
Drawing-to-Learn
Students enter biology classrooms with ideas about the natural world already formed. Teachers can help students construct new knowledge by using active, culturally relevant pedagogy and by making space in their lesson for students to reveal, challenge, and/or reconcile their preconceptions with new knowledge. Drawing meets all of these needs. Drawing-to-learn (DTL) allows students to be metacognitive and creative as they generate concrete represe…
Moving past postcolonial hybrid spaces
In formal learning spaces, students must navigate making meaning of both new knowledge and potentially new worldviews. In this qualitative grounded theory study, we examined how adult Buddhist monastic students learned about and described the origin of biodiversity in an introductory biology course. The study was conducted at a Tibetan settlement in south India during an 8‐day class that was offered as part of joint program between an American un…
Middle school science teachers’ agency to implement place-based education curricula about local wildlife
Environmental education researchers and policy makers acknowledge the need to act responsibly toward the environment. Yet, teachers do not always know how to help students translate environmental knowledge into sustainable action. This study examines the implementation of locally developed place-based education (PBE) curriculum for middle school science classes with the intention of promoting environmentally positive behaviors. Camera traps were …
An integrated livelihoods and well-being framework to understand northeastern Colorado ranchers' adaptive strategies
Bruno, J. E., M. E. Fernandez-Gimenez, and M. M. Balgopal. 2021. An integrated livelihoods and well-being framework to understand northeastern Colorado ranchers' adaptive strategies. Ecology and Society 26(4):27. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12754-260427
Wildlife Photographs
OPINION article Front. Educ., 13 July 2022Sec. STEM Education https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2022.910324
Integrating Authentic Research Into the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative
We are at a historic point in which scientists and Tibetan monastics are working together to investigate ancient questions of mind and matter, and to serve the best interests of humanity. To facilitate this collaboration, His Holiness the Dalai Lama supported the development of the Emory University-Tibet Science Initiative (ETSI), which reflects the first major change in the Tibetan monastic curriculum in six centuries. Over the course of a 6-yea…
Identity theory in agriculture
I will survive
As the pandemic began to disrupt school systems in March 2020, teachers were expected to quickly modify their instructional approaches. We recruited science, technology, engineering, and mathematics teachers who were recipients of National Science Foundation scholarships based on their high‐quality academic record and commitment to working in high‐needs school districts to participate in a longitudinal survey study. Participants ( n = 153) gradua…
Under pressure
Disruptions to education systems (e.g., the COVID‐19 pandemic) evoke a range of responses from teachers. Teachers are required to learn new skills, attend to students' social emotional needs, modify their instructional approaches, and discover innovative ways to engage their students in science, technology, and engineering courses, all while managing their own professional and personal needs. Although teachers of all disciplines adjust their inst…
Who teaches place-based education
Place-based education (PBE) offers teachers a unique opportunity to increase engagement and academic outcomes while strengthening students' connections to their environment and inspiring future conservation. In most instances, classroom teachers must independently choose to implement PBE, such as when discussing topics surrounding wildlife and the environment. Environmental values orientations of teachers may explain teachers' implementation of P…
Misalignment Between Citizen Science Project Leaders and Their Organizations Increases the Challenges They Face Achieving Project Outcomes
Citizen science values include increasing natural resource management, enabling large-scale research, promoting education and scientific literacy, addressing environmental injustice, mitigating climate change, and more. Project leaders often work toward multiple outcomes at once and must prioritize their focus. Prioritization is complicated given the competing interests of scientists, volunteers, funders, and others. According to role conflict th…
Introducing undergraduate students to human evolution through eco-immunology
Introduction The benefits of actively engaging students is especially relevant for teaching undergraduate students about evolutionary processes and content. Examining eco-immunological data can help students overcome the naïve conception that humans are not evolving or affected by evolutionary pressures. Methods Here, we used graphical reasoning in two evolution courses (small/honors and large/regular) to teach students about eco-immunology in hu…
An audience segmentation study of native plant gardening behaviors in the United States
Groups: Disengaged, Potential Adopters, Potential Amplifiers, and Potential Advocates. • About half of participants (48%) may be willing to engage in collective behavior. • Tailored public engagement may strengthen perceptions of gardening behaviors. Audience segmentation can be used to identify target audiences in environmental public engagement and communication, but few studies have used segmentation to study biodiversity conservation behavior…
How Accountability for Climate Change is Framed in Popular Magazines
In this content analysis of articles about climate change published in popular magazines over a two-year period (2020-2022), we examined both textual and visual content from climate change-related articles in National Geographic, Times Magazine and Discovery Magazine. Focusing on accountability and human-nature relationship, and informed by frame theory and agency theory, we identify 10 different accountable actor frames and three human-nature re…
Spurring and siloing
Scientific writing and publication are critical sites where students must navigate between personal identities and presumed scientific objectivity. For non-white student researchers, particularly those stereotyped as ‘model minorities,’ this process involves complex negotiations. This qualitative study examines how Asian and Asian American students navigate their cultural and linguistic identities within scientific writing processes. Using an int…
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