Centering Race in the STEM Education of African American K-12 Learners

Sonst. Personen	Prime, Glenda M. (Hrsg.)
Titel	Centering Race in the STEM Education of African American K-12 Learners
Quelle	(2019), (192 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	978-1-4331-6176-6
Schlagwörter	STEM Education; African American Students; Elementary School Students; Secondary School Students; Elementary Secondary Education; Academic Achievement; Achievement Gap; Racial Bias; Equal Education; Culturally Relevant Education; Science Education; Holistic Approach; Access to Education; Place Based Education; Informal Education; Internship Programs; Preservice Teacher Education; Curriculum; Science Teachers + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? STEM; African Americans; Student; Students; Afroamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Sekundarschüler; Schulleistung; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Holistischer Ansatz; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Informelle Bildung; Nichtformale Bildung; Berufspraktische Ausbildung; Lehramtsstudiengang; Lehrerausbildung; Curricula; Lehrplan; Rahmenplan; Science; Teacher; Teachers; Science teacher; Wissenschaft; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende
Abstract	"Centering Race in the STEM Education of African American K-12 Learners" boldly advocates for a transformative approach to the teaching of STEM to African American K-12 learners. The achievement patterns of African American learners, so often described as an "achievement gap" between them and their White peers, is in fact the historical legacy of slavery and the racial hierarchy that was necessary to maintain it. The achievement gap is a contemporary manifestation of the racial hierarchy that continues in STEM to the present time. The racial hierarchy in STEM education is upheld by structural arrangements, policies, and practices, sometimes invisible, but ultimately denies access and depresses performance of African American K-12 learners in STEM. This book argues that disrupting these patterns of achievement and realizing more equitable outcomes for this demographic is essentially a political act that requires that race be overtly addressed and centered in the STEM education of these children--an approach called "race-visible pedagogy." While this approach incorporates some of the elements of culturally responsive pedagogy and other anti-racist or liberatory pedagogies, it advances the thinking about such approaches by shifting the emphasis from the outcomes of such pedagogies to the experience of them. This book covers a range of issues related to the STEM education of African American K-12 learners and includes theoretical pieces that offer insightful, new, and asset-based, as opposed to deficit-based, frameworks for understanding and disrupting the patterns of achievement of African American children, as well examples of the practice of race-visible pedagogies. This book includes the following chapters: (1) Introduction: Race-Visible Pedagogy in the STEM Education of African American Learners (Glenda Prime); (2) Challenging Whiteness in Science Education (Gale Seiler); (3) Toward a Transformative Framework for STEM Education: Achieving Equity Through a Holistic Approach (Roni Ellington); (4) Reconceptualizing Science Education for Learners of African Descent (Jomo W. Mutegi, Crystal H. Morton, and Leslie K. Etienne); (5) Broadening Millennials' Participation in STEM and the Teaching Professions Through Culturally Relevant, Place-Based, Informal Science Internships (Jacqueline Leonard, Scott A. Chamberlin, Elsa Bailey, Geeta Verma, and Helen Douglass); (6) Developing Pre-Service Mathematics Teachers to Meet the Needs of Black Male Students in Teacher Education Programs (Julius Davis, Ramon B. Goings, and Keisha M. Allen); (7) Toward a Framework for Culturally Relevant Inquiry-Based Science Pedagogy (Vanessa Dodo Seriki); and (8) Antiracist Curriculum and Pedagogies in Science Teacher Education (Felicia Moore Mensah). (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01