Unearthing and Disrupting White Supremacy in STEM Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

STEM Education purports to be a neutral content area, rendering invisible the white supremacy within which it operates. The primary aim of this session is to disturb and disrupt ongoing STEM policies and practices in education settings that perpetuate the ideology of white supremacy. We show this on a variety of facets in STEM, from technology to mathematics, and with a variety of methodological inquiries, from policy and media studies to empirical work in classrooms.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 4: Policies, Mattering, and Praxis

Chair

• Miriam B. Tager, Westfield State University

Papers

• White Supremacy, Technology, and Early Childhood Education - Miriam B. Tager, Westfield State University

• Dismantling a "White Institutional Space": Developing Antiracist Practices in Mathematics Teacher Candidates - Mark Wolfmeyer, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

• Virtue Signaling in STEM Policy: How Diversity and Inclusion Efforts Prop Up White Supremacy - Shannon Christine Gleason, Westfield State University

Discussant

• Erika C. Bullock