Biography
Positions
Education
Areas of Specialization:
Environmental and Sustainability Education
Science teacher education
Informal science learning
Youth-led inquiry
Place-based curriculum development
Research Interests:
Justice-oriented science pedagogies
STEAM education
Citizen science and science outreach
Participatory research with youth
Community-university research partnerships
Collaborative learning
Current & Future Research:
Informal learning for sustainability science in STEM programs: Navigating emotions and identities to develop relational competencies. SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2024-2027). Collaborator with Allison Gonsalves, Blane Harvey, and Diane Dechief, McGill University.
Bacurú Droa: Indigenous Emberá Forestry Education. Tierras Colectivas de Rio Balsa and the Panama Ministry of Education (2025). Collaborator with Joseph Levitan at the Participatory Ecology Laboratory of McGill University and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
Publications
Wachs, J., Harvey, B., Leite, S., Sprowls, E. D. (2025) Co-creating pathways to social and ecological justice in higher education: The possibilities and pitfalls of collaborative course design. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSHE-09-2024-0662
Gonsalves, A. J., Sprowls, E. D., & Wiseman, D. (2021). Teaching Novice Science Teachers Online: Considerations for Practice-Based Pedagogy. LEARNing Landscapes, 14(1), 111–123. https://doi.org/10.36510/learnland.v14i1.1049
Gonsalves. A., Calvacante, A., Sprowls, E. D., Iacono, H. (2021) “Anybody can do science, if they’re brave enough”: Understanding the role of science capital in science majors’ identity trajectories into and through post-secondary science. Journal of Research Science in Teaching. https://doi.org/10.1002/tea.21695
Sprowls, E. D. (2020). Collaborative learning tools to foster inclusive participation and sense of belonging in a microbiology outreach partnership. Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 21(1), 4. https://doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.v21i1.2079
Peer-Reviewed Book chapters
Sprowls, E. D. (2022). Bridging Boundaries Between ESE and Science Education Research and Practice through Collaborative Learning for Climate Justice. In Challenges for environmental and sustainability education research in times of climate crisis (pp. 133–136). Universiteit Gent. https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8768733/file/8768735.pdf
Upcoming Book chapters/Sampled Guest Lectures and Conferences
Rahm, J., Polman, J. L., Adams, J., Stamatis, K., Hernandez, J. R., Luna, T. B., Luna, A. R., Kayumova, S., Harper, A., Bereavalez, E., Achilova, F., Richards, G., Ehret, C., Mannard, E., St. Victor, K. A., Rogers, C. D., Sprowls, E.D., & Gonsalves, A. (2023). Centering critical youth research methodologies of praxis and care in post-pandemic times: From respectful relations and dialogue towards new imaginaries. In Blikstein, P., Van Aalst, J., Kizito, R., & Brennan, K. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2023 (pp. 1622-1629). International Society of the Learning Sciences.https://repository.isls.org//handle/1/9983