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Achieving Equity through Critical Science Agency: An Ethnographic Study of African American Students in a Health Science Career Academy
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Haun-Frank, Julie – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to examine the potential of a High School Health Science Career Academy to support African American students' science career trajectories. I used three key theoretical tools---critical science agency (Basu, 2007; Calabrese Barton & Tan, 2008), power (Nespor, 1994), and cultural production (Carlone, 2004; Eisenhart &…
Descriptors: Science Careers, African American Students, Class Activities, Learning Activities