Maria Varelas
{{Short description|American science educator}}
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Maria Varelas is an American science educator. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Career
She graduated from University of Athens, University of Rochester, and University of Illinois Chicago. She teaches at University of Illinois Chicago.{{Cite web |title=Varelas, Maria {{!}} College of Education {{!}} University of Illinois Chicago |url=https://education.uic.edu/profiles/maria-varelas/ |access-date=2024-09-30 |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Maria Varelas {{!}} UIC today |url=https://today.uic.edu/experts/maria-varelas-phd/ |access-date=2024-09-30 |website=today.uic.edu}} She was named Distinguished Researcher.{{Cite web |title=The importance of understanding science {{!}} UIC today |url=https://today.uic.edu/maria-varelas-distinguished-researcher-social-sciences/ |access-date=2024-09-30 |website=today.uic.edu}}
She received National Science Foundation grants to train minority science teachers.{{Cite web |title=Grant to train black, Latino science teachers for Chicago {{!}} UIC today |url=https://today.uic.edu/minority-stem-teachers/ |access-date=2024-09-30 |website=today.uic.edu}} and study science learning in elementary and middle school.{{cite web |last=Date |first=Upcoming Due |date=2024-09-30 |title=Science learning through embodied performances in elementary and middle school |url=https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1908272&HistoricalAwards=false |access-date=2024-09-30 |website=NSF - National Science Foundation}}
Work
- {{cite journal |last1=Varelas |first1=Maria |last2=Pappas |first2=Christine C. |year=2006 |title=Intertextuality in Read-Alouds of Integrated Science-Literacy Units in Urban Primary Classrooms: Opportunities for the Development of Thought and Language |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/27739832 |journal=Cognition and Instruction |publisher=Taylor & Francis, Ltd. |volume=24 |issue=2 |pages=211–259 |doi=10.1207/s1532690xci2402_2 |issn=0737-0008 |jstor=27739832 |access-date=2024-09-30|url-access=subscription }}
- {{cite book |last=Varelas |first=Maria |title=Identity Construction and Science Education Research |date=2012-12-17 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-94-6209-043-9 |publication-place=Rotterdam Boston}}
- {{cite journal | last1=Varelas | first1=Maria | last2=Martin | first2=Danny B. | last3=Kane | first3=Justine M. | title=Content Learning and Identity Construction: A Framework to Strengthen African American Students' Mathematics and Science Learning in Urban Elementary Schools | journal=Human Development | publisher=S. Karger AG | volume=55 | issue=5/6 | year=2012 | issn=0018-716X | jstor=26764633 | pages=319–339 | doi=10.1159/000345324 | url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26764633 | access-date=2024-09-30| url-access=subscription }}
- {{cite web |last1=Ortiz |first1=Ibett |last2=Varelas |first2=Maria |date=2015-09-11 |title=Students as authors |url=https://www.academia.edu/15608769 |access-date=2024-09-30 |website=Academia.edu}}
- {{cite journal |last=Varelas |first=Maria |year=2018 |title=CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Dialectical Relationships and How They Shape (In) Equitable Science Learning Spaces and Places |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/45212200 |journal=Counterpoints |publisher=Peter Lang AG |volume=442 |pages=183–191 |issn=1058-1634 |jstor=45212200 |access-date=2024-09-30}}
References
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Category:21st-century American women educators
Category:Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Category:National and Kapodistrian University of Athens alumni
Category:University of Rochester alumni
Category:University of Illinois Chicago faculty
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