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Integrating Indigenous Science, Culture, and Social Justice Concerns into First-Year STEM Curriculum: Improving Intellectual Growth, Psychosocial Factors Associated with Retention, and Academic Achievement of Students from Racially Minoritized Groups Historically Underrepresented in STEM
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Amy Sprowles; Jessica Smith; Patricia Siering; Steven Margell; Frank Shaughnessy; Alison O'Dowd; Kerri J. Malloy; Matthew P. Hurst; P. Dawn Goley; Lisa Morehead-Hillman; Borbolla Mazzag; Gillian Black; L. Chook Chook Hillman; Dale Oliver; Katlin R. Goldenberg; Angela Rich; Sonja Manor; Matthew D. Johnson; Eileen Cashman – Science Education and Civic Engagement, 2024
Deficits in college degree attainment limit important perspectives and ways of knowing that inspire creativity and innovation. Disproportional outcomes for racially minoritized groups that are historically underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics exacerbate this problem and promote societal inequities, structural…
Descriptors: Curriculum Implementation, Indigenous Knowledge, STEM Education, Cultural Awareness
From "Confusion" and "Fear" to "Broadened Horizons." Students' Transformative Experiences in Two Higher Education Contexts: Argentina and Sweden
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Lotta Bergman; Frida Hessel – Journal of Transformative Education, 2024
This article explores students' experiences of intellectual, social, and emotional growth during the first year at university and the extent to which these experiences can be considered transformative (Mezirow, 1981). The study is a qualitative interpretive multiple-case study built on semi-structured interviews with students in two higher…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Higher Education, World Views, Self Esteem