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Episode 23:
Strangers in a Strange Land: How Black Students Succeed at a Primarily White Institution with Dr. Julie Stanton
https://www.teachingforstudentsuccess.org/
Strangers in a Strange Land: How Black Students Succeed at a Primarily White Institution with Dr. Julie Stanton
https://www.teachingforstudentsuccess.org/
Summary
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- Higher education is recognizing the importance and value of diversity and inclusivity in our institutions, our classes, our majors, and in the workforce. Along with this recognition are efforts to increase the success and graduation rates of all students with particular attention to our historically excluded, minoritized, marginalized, and first-generation students. Many approach this work from a perspective of deficits: students aren’t succeeding because of what they are missing. An alternative perspective is anti-deficit: recognizing what students are doing to succeed.
- For example: Instead of the deficit perspective: “Why don’t certain groups of students persist?” One might reframe the question and ask “How do certain groups of students manage to persist and earn degrees despite any number of negative forces that are working against them?“
- Dr. Julie Stanton, Associate Professor in the Department of Cell Biology at University of Georgia in Athens Georgia talks about her Participatory Action Research project that informs us about strategies that black students use to succeed at a primarily white institution. Please listen for an engaging and fascinating discussion of community cultural wealth.
References:
- Stanton, Julie Dangremond, Means, Darris R., Babatola, Oluwadamilola, Osondu, Chimezie, Oni, Omowunmi, & Mekonnen, Birook. (2022).
- Drawing on Internal Strengths and Creating Spaces for Growth: How Black Science Majors Navigate the Racial Climate at a Predominantly White Institution to Succeed. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 21(1), ar3.
- Means, Darris R., Stanton, Julie Dangremond, Mekonnen, Birook, Oni, Omowunmi, Breeden, Roshanda L., Babatola, Oluwadamilola, Beckham, Morgan A., & Marshall, Brandon (2023).
- A Deeper Calling: The Aspirations and Persistence of Black Undergraduate Students in Science at a Predominantly White Institution. The Review of Higher Education, in press.
Recommended Resources
- Yosso, T. J. (2005). Whose culture has capital? A critical race theory discussion of community cultural wealth. Race Ethnicity and Education, 8(1), 69-91.
- Denton, M., Borrego, M., & Boklage, A. (2020). Community cultural wealth in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education: A systematic review. Journal of Engineering Education, 109(3), 556-580.
- Harper, S. R. (2010). An anti‐deficit achievement framework for research on students of color in STEM. In S. R. Harper & C. B. Newman (Eds.), Students of color in STEM: Engineering a new research agenda. New Directions for Institutional Research (Vol. 2010, pp. 75-83). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
- Cammarota, J., & Fine, M. (2008). Youth participatory action research: A pedagogy for transformational resistance. In J. Cammarota & M. Fine (Eds.), Revolutionizing education: Youth participatory action research in motion (pp. 1-11). New York, NY: Routledge.
- Ladson-Billings, G. (1998). Just what is critical race theory and what's it doing in a nice field like education? International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 11(1), 7-24.
- Dewsbury, B. M. (2020). Deep teaching in a college STEM classroom. Cultural Studies of Science Education, 15(1), 169-191.
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National Center for Science & Civic Engagement (NCSCE)
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NCSCE is a national organization that supports a community of educators throughout the STEM learning ecosystem, from K-12 and undergraduate education to "free-choice" and informal education. Over 7000 educators have taken part in NCSCE activities. Through professional development programs we support cross-sector collaboration, curriculum and course design, assessment, research, and mentoring. We help educators in and outside the classroom make connections between the content they teach and real-world issues of civic importance.
Our goal is to empower learners by showing them that STEM education is civic education, and what they learn today can help solve some of the biggest problems of tomorrow. For a full picture of NCSCE projects, people, resources, and past activity, go to NCSCE.net
CHECK OUT OUR NEW MEMBERSHIP AND NEWS SITE!
Go to ncsce.wildapricot.org
NCSCE is a national organization that supports a community of educators throughout the STEM learning ecosystem, from K-12 and undergraduate education to "free-choice" and informal education. Over 7000 educators have taken part in NCSCE activities. Through professional development programs we support cross-sector collaboration, curriculum and course design, assessment, research, and mentoring. We help educators in and outside the classroom make connections between the content they teach and real-world issues of civic importance.
Our goal is to empower learners by showing them that STEM education is civic education, and what they learn today can help solve some of the biggest problems of tomorrow. For a full picture of NCSCE projects, people, resources, and past activity, go to NCSCE.net
SENCER
Science Education for New Civic
Engagements & Responsibilities
Science Education for New Civic
Engagements & Responsibilities
SENCER is NCSCE's signature program.
SENCER courses and programs strengthen student learning and interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) by connecting course topics to issues of critical local, national, and global importance.
Students and faculty report that the SENCER approach makes science more real, accessible, “useful,” and civically important.
For history, resources, the SENCER Course Model Series, and lots more go to SENCER.net
WANT TO GET MORE INVOLVED? Fill out the SENCER CENSUS!
SENCER, the signature initiative of the National Center for Science & Civic Engagement, is a national project focused on empowering faculty and improving STEM teaching and learning by making connections to civic issues.
Our community is made up of professionals, informal and formal educators, and administrators in K-12 and higher education institutions. Our network represents a broad range of disciplines and areas of focus.
We publish guides to applying the SENCER approach in the classroom, research on teaching and learning, and model courses that highlight particularly successful SENCER curricula.
Program Web Page: http://sencer.net
Upcoming Meetings:
Due to COVID-19 SENCER and NCSCE meetings will be on-line until further notice. We will announce new programs in the e-news.
SENCER courses and programs strengthen student learning and interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) by connecting course topics to issues of critical local, national, and global importance.
Students and faculty report that the SENCER approach makes science more real, accessible, “useful,” and civically important.
For history, resources, the SENCER Course Model Series, and lots more go to SENCER.net
WANT TO GET MORE INVOLVED? Fill out the SENCER CENSUS!
SENCER, the signature initiative of the National Center for Science & Civic Engagement, is a national project focused on empowering faculty and improving STEM teaching and learning by making connections to civic issues.
Our community is made up of professionals, informal and formal educators, and administrators in K-12 and higher education institutions. Our network represents a broad range of disciplines and areas of focus.
We publish guides to applying the SENCER approach in the classroom, research on teaching and learning, and model courses that highlight particularly successful SENCER curricula.
Program Web Page: http://sencer.net
Upcoming Meetings:
Due to COVID-19 SENCER and NCSCE meetings will be on-line until further notice. We will announce new programs in the e-news.