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ERIC Number: EJ1443288
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Nov
Pages: 18
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0036-8326
EISSN: EISSN-1098-237X
Dreaming of Disability-as-Possibility as a Humanistic STEM Education Futurity
Phillip A. Boda
Science Education, v108 n6 p1590-1607 2024
I Dream with and through a positionality that lacks critical theorizing in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education research: Students labeled with disabilities; Disability beyond students' accommodations. Understanding this marginalized population can push humanistic STEM scholarship to disrupt ableism by design, thereby honoring students' voices, identities, and Dreams as knowledge-building sources. Engaging purposefully along such a proactive centering of these margins pushes STEM researchers to think beyond past challenges and break away from the free-market value commoditizations of education. I urge we Dream future possibilities of humanistic STEM education where researchers, teachers, and students are aligned to build new cultures of joy and feelings of relational belonging. In this way I seek to nurture the brilliance of students who are historically marginalized, including Disabled people, because of a desire to define their studenthood on their own terms. I argue that STEM education researchers working toward "what if" leveraging intersectionality as a way to critically theorize design can do more than change disciplinary practices: We can help students to Dream beyond "what is."
Wiley. Available from: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030. Tel: 800-835-6770; e-mail: cs-journals@wiley.com; Web site: https://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2191/en-us
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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