#UrbanBirdProject: Supporting Minoritized Communities' STEM Learning via Avian Ecology, Mexican American, and Indigenous Studies (Poster 33)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Eight
  In Poster Session: Informal Learning Environments Research SIG Poster Presentation (Place-Based)

Abstract

Presenters will share preliminary findings from an innovative interdisciplinary study that centers culturally-sustaining pedagogies, ethnic studies, avian ecology, and community science to advance STEM engagement from minoritized populations at three majority-minority, Title 1 middle schools in San Antonio, TX. Emphasis will be placed on inter-disciplinary community informed methodological practices and the potential impacts for engaging with minoritized communities via informal environmental science and ecology research and learning.

Authors

• Amelia Lynn King-Kostelac, University of Texas - San Antonio
  Presenting Author

• Claudia García-Louis, The University of Texas San Antonio
  Presenting Author

• Kenneth Walker, University of Texas - San Antonio
  Non-Presenting Author

• Lauren Granger, University of Texas - San Antonio
  Non-Presenting Author

• Paulina Hernandez-Trejo, University of Texas - San Antonio
  Non-Presenting Author

• Carolina Hinojosa, University of Texas - San Antonio
  Non-Presenting Author

• Jennifer A. Smith, University of Texas - San Antonio
  Non-Presenting Author