Full Description
Qualitative Research in STEM examines the groundbreaking potential of qualitative research methods to address issues of social justice, equity, and sustainability in STEM. A collection of empirical studies conducted by prominent STEM researchers, this book examines the experiences and challenges faced by traditionally marginalized groups in STEM, most notably culturally and linguistically diverse students and women. Investigations into these issues, as well as the high dropout rate among engineering students and issues of academic integrity in STEM, come with detailed explanations of the study methodologies used in each case. Contributors also provide personal narratives that share their perspectives on the benefits of qualitative research methodologies for the topics explored. Through a variety of qualitative methodologies, including participatory action research, Indigenous research, and critical ethnography, this volume aims to reveal and remedy the inequalities within STEM education today.
Contents
Contents
Introduction
Sherry Marx
"I am an innovator:" Quahn's Counter-narrative of Becoming in STEM
Angela Calabrese Barton, Myunghwan Shin, and LaQuahn Johnson
"I come because I make toy.": Examining Nodes of Criticality in an Afterschool Science & Engineering (SE) Club with Refugee Youth
Edna Tan and Beverly Faircloth
Sociocultural Analysis of Engineering Design: Latino High School Students' Funds of Knowledge and Implications for Culturally Responsive Engineering Education
Joel Alejandro Mejia
Bruised But Not Broken: African American Women Persistence in Engineering Degree Programs in Spite of Stereotype Threat
Sherry Marx
Examining Academic Integrity in the Postmodern: Undergraduates' Use of Solutions to Complete Textbook-based Engineering Coursework
Angela Minichiello
Engineering Dropouts: A Qualitative Examination of Why Undergraduates Leave Engineering
Matthew Meyer and Sherry Marx
nitâcimowinis: A research story in Indigenous Science Education
Jeff Baker
From Ambivalences toward Self-Efficacy: Bilingual Teacher Candidates' Shifting Sense of Knowing as Conocimiento with STEM
Anita Bright and G. Sue Kasun
Examining the Non-Rational in Science Classrooms: Girls, Sustainability, and Science Education
Kim Haverkos
Seven Types of Subitizing Activity Characterizing Young Children's Mental Activity
Beth L. MacDonald and Jesse L. M. Wilkins
Orienting Students to One Another and to the Mathematics During Discussions
Elham Kazemi and Adrian Cunard
List of Contributors
Index
