ERIC Number: EJ1439626
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Sep
Pages: 11
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EISSN: EISSN-1931-7913
Toward Culturally Responsive Mentoring of Muslim Research Mentees in the Sciences
Tasneem F. Mohammed; Rahmi Q. Aini; M. Elizabeth Barnes; Katelyn M. Cooper
CBE - Life Sciences Education, v23 n3 Essay 5 2024
Research experiences are an integral part of training future scientists and fostering diversity in science. Providing culturally responsive research mentorship, defined as mentorship that incorporates cultural knowledge to improve learning experiences for a particular group, is a critical step in this endeavor. While culturally responsive mentoring is most commonly associated with mentoring students with underrepresented races and ethnicities in the sciences, it can also be helpful for mentees with a diversity of abilities, sexualities, economic backgrounds, and religions. In this essay, we discuss how mentors can provide more culturally responsive mentoring of Muslim research mentees in the sciences. Muslims are a stigmatized minority group in the United States who participate in a religious culture that often differs from the secular culture of science. Notably, there are few resources for how to engage in culturally responsive mentoring of Muslim research mentees. To address this gap, we drew from the extant literature on the challenges that Muslims encounter in the United States, which likely extends to the context of scientific research, and identified potential culturally responsive accommodations in research.
Descriptors: Mentors, Cultural Relevance, Muslims, Researchers, Sciences, Islamic Culture, Cultural Differences, Educational Research, Religious Factors, Barriers, College Students
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
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