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Owner: Jane W. Kim
Owner Email: jane.kim.ucla@gmail.com
Paper Title: Pedagogy of Resistance: STEM+CS Teachers Counter Bias and Discrimination in STEM and Computing Education
Session Title: Culturally Responsive Education for Contested Times
Paper Type: Paper
Presentation Date: 4/13/2023
Presentation Location: Chicago, IL
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Social Justice, Urban Education
Methodology: Qualitative
Author(s): Jane W. Kim, University of California - Los Angeles; Imelda Nava-Landeros, University of California - Los Angeles; Candisse Griffin, University of California - Los Angeles; Olivia Johnson, University of California - Los Angeles; Gloria Mayorga Garcia, University of California - Los Angeles; David Terrazas, University of California - Los Angeles
Unit: Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education
Abstract: We explore how STEM+CS teachers with marginalized identities address discrimination and biases in STEM and computing spaces. Four STEM+CS teachers in urban Title 1 public schools, who had a lived history of similar STEM discriminatory challenges, engaged in humanizing and critical pedagogies to create inclusive, critical and transformative STEM learning for their students of color and with marginalized identities. We applied a critical and decolonizing ethnographic methodology in analysis of interviews, observation notes, pedagogical actions, and instructional artifacts. All four teachers used counternarratives and integrated sociopolitical or community-centric connections to STEM pedagogical practices. Teachers leveraged data and computational thinking to engage in critical dialogue, reflection, and action in their inclusive and justice-oriented classroom spaces.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3102/2011040