Disrupting White Supremacy in STEM Education Policies

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The 3 papers in this panel represent a part of an emerging network involving research that focuses on racism and early childhood and STEM education. The papers all delve into how STEM education currently perpetuates the ideology of White supremacy in its policies and practices. Topics include: White supremacy, technology and early childhood education; STEM policies that control and racialize bodies and Math as a racialized space in higher education
Research methods are qualitative and include; theory, empirical data (from interviews and observations). Theoretical frameworks for each paper are grounded in, Critical Race
Theory

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Educators for Social Justice

Chair

• Miriam B. Tager, Westfield State University

Papers

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

• The Construction of Antiracist Practices in Mathematics Teacher Education - Mark Wolfmeyer, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

• Stem Policy and Racialized Bodies Within White Spaces - Shannon Christine Gleason, Westfield State University