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Tiffany L. Wright – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study aimed to examine the impact of cultural capital (Bourdieu, 1973; Bourdieu & Passeron, 1977) on the access and equity of C-STEM learners of color under the following four tenets of Yosso's (2005) Community Cultural Wealth model: aspirational, familial, social, and navigational capital. A theoretical framework of Critical Race Theory…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Access to Education, Equal Education, Females
Charleston, LaVar Jovan – ProQuest LLC, 2010
As a result of decreasing degree attainment in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, the United States is undergoing a shortage in the STEM workforce that it has not encountered since the mid-1950s (ACT, 2006; Gilbert & Jackson, 2007). Moreover, as computer usage cuts across diverse aspects of modern culture, the…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Academic Degrees, Student Educational Objectives, African American Education