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Benavidez, Samantha; Flores, Sylvia L.; Garza, Jose; Hudson, Gina; Leal, Rebecca Ybarra; Morales, Jessica; Ramos, Abigail; Munoz, Vanessa – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2020
This paper will include details on knowledge and ambition levels found between Latino-ethnic K-5 students located in a Southern Region of Texas from a college going culture presentation. The purpose is to understand how ambition and knowledge about higher education was influenced among Latino-ethnic K-5 students in impoverished areas. A low-income…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Kindergarten, Elementary School Students, Academic Aspiration
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Rodríguez-Gómez, Diana – Ethnography and Education, 2022
This article examines the future as a technique of government aimed at controlling young people's relationships to the present. It analyses the futures deemed feasible in a school located in a border area affected by the Colombian armed conflict. Based on ethnographic data collected primarily between 2013 and 2014, this study highlights the…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Futures (of Society), Rural Areas, Social Mobility
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Wao, Hesborn; Kersaint, Gladis; Smith, Chrystal A. S.; Campbell-Montalvo, Rebecca; Puccia, Ellen; Skvoretz, John; Martin, Julie P.; Lee, Reginald; MacDonald, George – International Journal of STEM Education, 2023
Background: Women and under-represented minority (URM) students continue to be under-represented in STEM and earn the lowest proportion of undergraduate engineering degrees. We employed a mixed methods research approach grounded in social capital theory to investigate "when" they first consider pursuing engineering as a college degree…
Descriptors: Females, Minority Group Students, Disproportionate Representation, Engineering Education