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Wounded Healer: Impact of a Grant-Supported Scholarship on a Minority STEM Student's Career and Life

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Abstract

This study narratively untangles an African American university student’s experiences in the throes of him being awarded a NSF grant-sponsored scholarship to study computer science and enter a future STEM career. Using the “wounded healer” metaphor as an interpretative device, this study explores the challenges the student experienced relating to his culture, his contextualized learning, his family interactions, his religious beliefs and his self. The student’s stories of transforming and healing instantiate the profound impact the grant-supported scholarship had on the student’s life and career trajectory. Also, new connections between narrative and metaphor are forged in ways that strengthen the young adult’s well-being and the sense he—and we—were able to make of his learning, culture and social interactions.

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