Nourishing STEM Identities: Black Students' Access to Postsecondary STEM Education

• In Event: Identity in STEM: Managing Space, Place, and Pathways

Abstract

This critical case study indicates the factors that impact access to STEM post-secondary fields through transitional, bridging, and access education programs by Black students in Canada. Using a Critical Race Theory framework, eleven interviews were completed with Black students and counterstories were co-constructed. The salient themes that emerged are notably all outside the structure of the educational institution alone – indicating that access programming must encompass a wraparound community approach when supporting Black students and access.

Authors

• Nadia Qureshi, University of Toronto
  Presenting Author

• Lance Trevor McCready, University of Toronto
  Presenting Author