Dr. Olga Jarrett

Olga S. Jarrett, PhD is Professor Emerita in science education at the Department of Early Childhood and Elementary Education, Georgia State University. In addition to science education with undergraduates, she taught child development and science/social studies methods in the Urban Accelerated Certification and Master’s program and courses in play and child development in the Ph.D. program.  Her evaluation work has included the following NSF REU grants: Atlanta Consortium for Research in the Earth Sciences (ACRES), 1999-2004; Community Soil Air Water (CSAW); and Citizen Science GIS in Belize, 2016-2019 and 2020-2023. Research interests include science education, social justice, play and recess, and project evaluation.

Early Childhood Education, Ph.D. – Georgia State University

Political Science, M.A. – Pennsylvania State University

History, B.A. – Pennsylvania State University

Hawthorne, T. L. & Jarrett, O. S. (2018). Developing the next generation of community-based scholars. Professional Geographer, 70(2), 291-297. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2017.1366780

Jarrett, O. S. & Burnley, P. (2010, March). Lessons on the role of fun/playfulness from a geology undergraduate summer research program. Journal of Geoscience Education, 58(2), 110-120.

Jarrett, O. S. & Burnley, P. (2007). The role of fun, playfulness, and creativity in science: Lessons from geoscientists. In D. Sluss and O. Jarrett (Eds). Investigating play in the 21st Century: Play and Culture Studies, Vol. 7, (pp.188-202). Lanham, MD: University Press.

Jarrett, O. S. & Burnley, P. C. (2003). Engagement in authentic geoscience research: Evaluation of research experiences of undergraduates and secondary teachers, Journal of Geoscience Education, 51(1), 85-90.