Christine Tippett is a full professor in the Faculty of Education whose research and teaching focuses on science and STEM education. She teaches two required graduate courses, which she affectionately calls the “bookend courses” because they are the first and last classes to be taken in the MEd program. Professor Tippett was an engineer before she obtained her teaching degree; an experience that has influenced her ways of thinking about science and STEM education. She leads the STEM in the Early Years research project which focuses on how learning science, technology, engineering, and mathematics at a very young age, can build a solid foundation for later, more formal STEM education. Professor Tippett was awarded the New Researcher Award in 2015 and the Thesis Supervision Award in 2023, both from the Faculty of Education
Christine Tippett
Profile
Christine
Tippett
Full Professor
Room
LMX 486
Phone
613-562-5800 ext. 4069
Email
Books
Milford, T. M. & Tippett, C. (2019). Introduction: Setting the Scene for a Meso-level Analysis of Canadian Science Education
Journals & other
Sadowski, N., Tippett, C., & Meunier, A. (2022). The roles of Canadian science museums: Making sense of mission statements. Review of Science, Mathematics and ICT Education, 16(1), 91-120.
Tippett, C., McLean, L. R., Bergen, J., & Baroud, J. (2021). Social Studies, Science, and Civics: Teacher Education and Citizen Science in the 21st Century, Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 67(4), 372–396.
Tippett, C. & Milford, T.M. (2017). Findings from a Pre-kindergarten Classroom: Making the Case for STEM in Early Childhood Education, International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 15, 67–86.
Research interests
- Early childhood STEM education
- Science education in Canada
- Visual representations
- Language and science
- Professional development for science educators (pre-service, in-service, and informal)
- Engineering design