Angela Calabrese Barton receives the 2024 Distinguished Contributions to Science Education Through Research award from NARST

Angela Calabrese Barton has been awarded the 2024 Distinguished Contributions to Science Education Through Research award from the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST). This is the highest award that NARST bestows upon its members, which recognizes the superior caliber of their professional accomplishments. It is given to recognize an individual who, through research over an extended period of time, has made outstanding and continuing contributions, provided notable leadership, and made a substantial impact in the area of science education. The award will be presented to Calabrese Barton at the NARST Annual International Conference in Denver, Colorado.

Calabrese Barton's research embraces authentic “research + practice” work that attends to practitioner and youth voice, and critically engages the goals of equity and justice, resulting in transformed design of learning environments to support justice centered expansive learning outcomes such as critical agency, identity work, and social transformation.

NARST is a global organization for improving science teaching and learning through research. Since its inception in 1928, NARST has promoted research in science education and the communication of knowledge generated by the research. The ultimate goal of NARST is to help all learners achieve science literacy.