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Providing Access, Serving Programs, and Inclusiveness; a Tripartite Model for Graduate Schools
No full textThe objective of this paper is to address critical questions and issues related to academic support and inclusivity for graduate students in the context of graduate education. Graduate school leadership, underrepresented student participation, and affirmative action are examined to ascertain connectivity to support the benefits of diversity. A comprehensive, tripartite model is provided to guide institutions specifically by assisting graduate school administrators who are charged to improve inclusiveness regarding academic programs and departments. This model can help provide services and award funding with a level of precision that avoids inarticulate support by delineating the different needs that programs have.
Connecting with Computer Science: Electronic Textile Portfolios as Ideational Identity Resources for High School Students
No full textThe development of student identities—their interests in computer science, perceptions of the discipline, and sense of belonging in the field—is critical for broadening participation of underrepresented groups in computing. This paper reports on the design of portfolios in which two classes of high school students reflected on the process of making electronic textile projects. We examine how students expressed self-authorship in relation to computer science and how the use of reflective portfolios shaped students’ perceptions of computer science. In the discussion we consider how reflective portfolios can serve as ideational resources for computer science identity construction
Making Race: Examining the Power of Local Place in Teacher Discourse in Mauritius
No full textTeaching to students’ local experiences is a tenet of good teaching in many contexts. This study explores the ways eight educators use local meanings in discourse. Through ethnographic work in an elementary school in the township of Roche-Bois, Mauritius, I examine teachers’ words about students’ localities. Articulating critical discourse analysis with theories of space, I evaluate whether teachers’ place-based meanings perpetuate or transform long-standing historical patterns of racialization associated with the town. The analysis identifies how processes of racialization take shape through place-based discourse. I draw implications for a critical pedagogy of the local to support decolonizing teacher knowledge.
Invite Their Languages In: Community-Based Literacy Practices with Multilingual African Immigrant Girls in New York City
No full textThis three-year qualitative case study examined how an African community-based organization, Sauti Yetu’s Girl’s Empowerment and Leadership Initiative (GELI), leads, bolsters, and transforms the literacy development of African immigrant girls who are identified as English Language Learners (ELLs) and Students with Interrupted Formal Education (SIFE) in New York City schools. In particular, the study addresses how community-based literacy practices mobilize multilingual African immigrant girls to strengthen their communities. The study drew upon critical perspectives of literacy and community-based practices to examine the approaches GELI has implemented to address the academic and social needs of African immigrant girls in public schools
Online Collaboration between Arab and Jewish Students: Fear and Anxiety
No full textThis study examines students in an online, collaborative, yearlong intercollege course. Arab and Jewish students from five colleges of education in Israel worked in virtual teams. The data includes pre and post questionnaires as well as open ended questions and ongoing reflective journals. The results of the t-test indicated that the perception of other participants in the group improved significantly among Jewish and Arab participants -4.38. This was backed up by the qualitative data. Initially, the students expressed apprehension towards working with people from the other culture and fear of leaving their comfort zone
Equitable Engagement in STEM: Using E-textiles to Challenge the Positioning of Non-dominant Girls in School Science
No full textThis paper examines how working with sewable, programmable electronics embedded in textiles (e-textiles) impacted the self-perceptions and actions of two middle school girls from non-dominant communities as they navigated their place within science class. Using analytic induction (Erickson, 1986), we explore the phenomena around their experiences and the influence of their teachers’ perceptions. Findings indicate that the personalizable nature of e-textiles created a meaningful opportunity for students to engage in science class in a new way
Social Aspects of Learning: Sámi People in the Circumpolar North
No full textThis article addresses how, in the Arctic regions, indigenous traditional educational approaches focus on the cultural background of the people and their social learning customs in today’s context. The development of Arctic pedagogical approaches is discussed in light of experiences collected in Finnish Lapland in 2017 with the Sámi people. Particularly, the significance of social interactions in indigenous pedagogies is explored. We ask how social interactions benefit technologically enhanced learning in the Sámi cultural context. The findings suggest that social interactions have the potential for improving learning even when learning with and through information and communication technologies (ICTs)
Technology for Equity and Social Justice in Education: Introduction to the Special Issue
No full textIn this Introduction to the IJME Special Issue on Technology for Equity and Social Justice in Education, Sherry Marx and Yanghee Kim highlight key trends in technology education research that address issues of equity and multicultural education. Seven articles are introduced
Enhancing the Intercultural Competence of College Students: A Consideration of Applied Teaching Techniques
No full textMany higher education instructions have set forth explicit objectives to improve college students’ intercultural sensitivity and communication. However, there currently exits considerable heterogeneity in terms of the extent and methods that higher education institutions undertake in order to achieve these important goals. This praxis essay provides a framework to understand the process of intercultural learning in college students, the core features of academic cultural psychology, and makes specific recommendations for effective and innovative ways to teach a cultural psychology course to a broad range of undergraduate students. Specific teaching techniques are offered to target specific intercultural learning areas
Computing with Relevance and Purpose: A Review of Culturally Relevant Education in Computing
No full textThe purpose of the present review was to identify culturally responsive education (CRE) tools and strategies within K-12 computing education. A systematic literature review of studies on CRE across 20 years was conducted. A narrative synthesis was applied to code the final studies into six themes: sociopolitical consciousness raising, heritage culture through artifacts, vernacular culture, lived experiences, community connections, and personalization. These common themes in CRE can help empower and attend to the needs of marginalized students in technology education. Furthermore, the review serves as an important overview for researchers and educators attempting to achieve equity in computing education