Sreyashi Jhumki Basu [SEP] date of death
Sreyashi Jhumki Basu
Sreyashi Jhumki Basu (1977–2008) was a professor of Science Education at New York University who is best known for her work to encourage urban minority students to succeed through the study of science.
Background.
Basu attended Stanford University, where she received a B.A. in Human Biology in 1998 and completed her doctorate in Science Education at Teachers College, Columbia University in 2006. For her PhD thesis titled "How urban youth express critical agency in a 9th grade conceptual physics classroom", she received the Outstanding
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- Matthew Arnold - Wrote about education in an age of democracy
- Sreyashi Jhumki Basu - Researcher at New York University and author of Democratic Science Teaching
- Pierre Bourdieu - Anthropologist, social theorist, College de France
- George Dennison - American writer, author
- John Dewey - Social scientist, progressive education theorist, University of Chicago
- Émile Durkheim - Sociologist, functionalist education theorist
- Michel Foucault - Post-modern philosopher, University of California, Berkeley
- Peter Gray - Psychologist