ERIC Number: EJ1338296
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 27
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ISSN: EISSN-2377-9187
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From Imagined to In-Practice and Performed STEM Identities: Measuring the Impact of a Latina STEM Fellowship on the Educational Trajectories of Latina High School Students
Przymus, Steve Daniel; Sparks, David; Garcia, Sophia; Silveus, Allison; Cartmill, Cassandra
Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, v15 n1 p113-139 2021
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) educational camps and fellowships that specifically target underrepresented populations in STEM fields, such as Latinas, have become more common place across the United States. In this article, we analyze multimodal ways of representing, opportunities, and role-models present at these camps, which together assemble an environment that uplifts participants with greater knowledge about possible STEM educational/career pathways and develops within participants an identity as future STEM professionals. We place identity and the power of imagination front and center in our study and through a multimodal systemic functional linguistics approach (Przymus et al., 2020), we analyze the experience of six Latina high school students and document all meaning-making textual interactions that moved these Latina STEM Fellowship (LSF) participants from imagined to in- practice and performed STEM identities. Results indicate that participants are deeply aware of the stereotype threat and identity contingencies that face Latinas in STEM careers, but that interacting with other high school Latina peers and with accomplished Latina scientists at the LSF worked to counteract these challenges and discourses of deficit.
Descriptors: STEM Education, Hispanic American Students, Females, High School Students, Fellowships, Program Effectiveness, Ethnic Stereotypes, Identification (Psychology), Social Bias, Gender Bias, Peer Influence, Scientists, Disproportionate Representation, Cultural Influences, Summer Programs, College School Cooperation, Camps, Career Choice, Vocational Interests
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education; Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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