Julie C. Brown is Associate Professor of Science Education in the College of Education at the University of Florida.
Dr. Brown’s scholarship on culturally-responsive science education is dedicated to advancing equitable STEM learning environments by preparing culturally responsive secondary science teachers and undergraduate biology teaching assistants, as well as designing and evaluating equitable STEM instructional tools. Her research examines how secondary science teachers learn to enact cultural responsiveness for the students they serve through their attitudes, classroom practices, and designed curricula. Her team employs design-based research methods to devise, assess, and revise theoretically grounded interventions that are responsive to specific, contextualized problems.
As principal investigator (PI), Dr. Brown has guided the implementation of multiple education grants funded by the National Science Foundation on the topic of culturally-responsive teaching in science and math contexts.