Exploring How Culture Matters in Building Responsive and Humanizing Contexts for Community College Students Pursuing STEM
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Selected Literature
3. STEM Educational Environments and Culture
4. Theoretical Framework
5. Methods and Methodology
5.1. Research Context
5.2. Participants
6. Data Collection
7. Data Analysis
Researcher Positionality
8. Findings
8.1. The Language of Cultural Inclusion and Exclusion
8.2. How Race Matters for Cultural Inclusion and Exclusion
…like sometimes it hits you really hard when you are talking to another student, and you realize ‘I can’t relate at all’… and when you experience that you feel a little alone. And that happens the most in my classes that are predominantly white. And when that happens, I just try to remind myself of my community back in my Mexican American Studies classes… Having those two majors really brings balance, because if I was just in the STEM classes, then I would feel like a bigger outcast.
9. A Transfer-Receptive STEM Subculture?
10. Discussion
11. Conclusions and Implications for Research and Practice
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Pseudonym | STEM Discipline | Eligibility | Race/Ethnicity | Gender |
---|---|---|---|---|
Alanah | Chemical & Environmental Engineering | Low Income | Latinx | Woman |
Ray | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Low Income/First Generation | White | Woman |
Ken | Systems & Industrial Engr | Low Income/First Generation | Asian | Man |
Mimi | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Low Income/First Generation | Latinx | Woman |
Sarah | Systems Engineering | Low Income/First Generation | White | Woman |
Kelly | Geosciences | Low Income/First Generation | Latinx | Woman |
Tia | Plant Sciences | Low Income/First Generation | White | Non-Binary |
Henry | Molecular & Cellular Biology | Low Income/First Generation | Latinx | Man |
Melissa | Environmental Health Engineering | Low Income | White | Woman |
Tonya | Mechanical Engineering | Low Income/First Generation | American Indian | Woman |
Arthur | Computer Science | Low Income | Asian | Man |
Sam | Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering | Low Income | Latinx | Man |
Luther | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Low Income | White | Man |
Cieola | Natural Resource & Environmental Engineering | Low Income/First Generation | Black/African American | Man |
Gabriella | Systems & Industrial Engineering | Low Income/First Generation | Latinx | Woman |
Larry | Animal & Biomedical Sciences | Low Income/First Generation | Multiracial | Man |
Kris | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Low Income | Latinx | Woman |
Petra | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Low Income/First Generation | Latinx | Woman |
Aldena | Plant Sciences | Low Income/First Generation | Latinx | Woman |
Ally | Civil & Aerospace Engineering | Low Income/First Generation | Latinx | Woman |
Matt | Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering | Low Income/First Generation | Latinx | Man |
Bianca | Systems & Industrial Engineering | Low Income/First Generation | White | Man |
Amy | Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering | Low Income | White | Woman |
Santos | Physics | Low Income/First Generation | Latinx | Woman |
Hector | Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering | Low Income/First Generation | Latinx | Man |
Ben | Molecular & Cellular Biology | Low Income | Latinx | Man |
Mike | Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering | Low Income/First Generation | White | Man |
Patricia | Chemical & Environmental Engineering | Low Income/First Generation | Black/African American | Woman |
Lucas | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Low Income/First Generation | Latinx | Man |
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Anderson, B.L.; Deil-Amen, R. Exploring How Culture Matters in Building Responsive and Humanizing Contexts for Community College Students Pursuing STEM. Educ. Sci. 2024, 14, 956. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci14090956
Anderson BL, Deil-Amen R. Exploring How Culture Matters in Building Responsive and Humanizing Contexts for Community College Students Pursuing STEM. Education Sciences. 2024; 14(9):956. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci14090956
Chicago/Turabian StyleAnderson, Brenda Lee, and Regina Deil-Amen. 2024. "Exploring How Culture Matters in Building Responsive and Humanizing Contexts for Community College Students Pursuing STEM" Education Sciences 14, no. 9: 956. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci14090956