The makerspace movement: Sites of possibilities for equitable opportunities to engage underrepresented youth in STEM

AC Barton, E Tan, D Greenberg - Teachers College Record, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Background/Context Large gaps in achievement and interest in science and engineering
(STEM) persist for youth growing up in poverty, and in particular for African American and …

Young women of color figuring science and identity within and beyond an afterschool science program

J Rahm, AJ Gonsalves, A Lachaîne - Journal of the Learning …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Background To attend to the social production of girls of color in science through the lens of
history in person and local contentious practice, we propose a relational and …

Identity across the STEM ecosystem: Perspectives of youth, informal educators, and classroom teachers

K Wade‐Jaimes, K Ayers… - Journal of Research in …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Out of school time (OST) STEM opportunities are often presented as ways to support student
achievement, understanding, and identity in STEM. Recent work has begun to explore how …

Science identity trajectories of latecomers to science in college

PA Jackson, G Seiler - Journal of Research in Science …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This study introduces a new group of students to the postsecondary science agenda:
latecomers to science. Latecomers, who enter postsecondary science through alternative …

Using historical and political understanding to design for equity in science education

MV Shea, J Sandoval - Science Education, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In this article we studied how community educators' designed for equity in an after school
science program. Building from discussions of equity in out‐of‐school‐time (OST) science …

Mapping the evolution of an after-school STEM club for African American girls using activity theory

K Wade-Jaimes, JD Cohen, B Calandra - Cultural Studies of Science …, 2019 - Springer
Research has shown that African American girls are interested in science but not as likely to
pursue science-related careers as their white or male peers. Although out of school time …

Youth Voice and Positive Identity-Building Practices: The Case of ScienceGirls.

J Rahm, A Lachaîne, A Mathura - Canadian Journal of Education, 2014 - JSTOR
Through two stories of youth voice, learning, and identity development in an afterschool
science program for girls only, we show the ways in which such programs can be …

[PDF][PDF] Mobilities of criticality: space-making, identity and agency in a youth-centered makerspace

AC Barton, E Tan, M Shin - 2016 - repository.isls.org
We examine in-depth cases of youth makers from non-dominant communities in two
makerspace clubs in two different mid-sized US cities. We argue that through their making …

Stories of learning, identity, navigations and boundary crossings in STEM in non-dominant communities: New imaginaries for research and action

J Rahm - Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2016 - Springer
Marta Civil's paper “STEM learning research through a funds of knowledge lens” can be
read as a story about her trajectory as a researcher of everyday and school mathematics …

Unpacking practice: The challenges and possibilities afforded by sociomaterial ethnography

P Cameron, A MacLeod, J Tummons… - … in education research, 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter untangles the methodological challenges and possibilities provoked by a
sociomaterial approach to multisite ethnography. Sociomaterial theories challenge the focus …