Welcome

The Geocognition Research and Geoscience Education Research occurring in the Geocognition Research Lab focuses on questions related to how people perceive, understand, and make decisions about the planet with focus on access, inclusion, equity, and justice.

Geocognition is an umbrella term encompassing research that considers the affective, behavioral, and cognitive domains of learning in intersection with Earth System Science. This field considers how people perceive, understand, and make decisions about the Earth in diverse settings from museums to classrooms to everyday life. Alternatively, geoscience education research focuses solely on learning in established settings. Discipline-Based Education Research (DBER) in geoscience focuses most closely on college settings (see the DBER report) although some scholars (like us!) expand their work to consider K-12 and informal settings for people “from K to gray”. Geoscience education research sits under the umbrella of geocognition.

Access the Geoscience Concept Inventory and related initiatives here.

ADDRESS:

Julie Libarkin
206 Natural Science
Michigan State University
East Lansing MI 48823

EMAIL: libarkin@msu.edu