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The Essential Value of the Justice-Impacted Voice in (and in the Design of) Educational Research Related to Exclusion and How This Voice, When Combined With System Research, Can Add Nuance and Complexity to Our Understanding

Sat, April 15, 2:50 to 4:20pm CDT (2:50 to 4:20pm CDT), Hyatt Regency Chicago, Floor: East Tower- Ballroom Level, Grand Hall K

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

In this session, a group of authors who contributed to a special issue of the journal Urban Education focusing on the voices of directly impacted people and their allies in STEM education and careers, will discuss their research, which spans diverse methods and methodologies, to illuminate exclusion in STEM and the cradle-to-prison pipeline in action. This issue challenges our field to center the brilliant voices of justice-impacted people, as Leonard & Martin (2013) and others have advocated strongly to center the brilliant voices of Black learners. However, we are still left with difficulty in understanding the complexity within the system itself; thus, their voices are necessary to understand what it could mean to impact the system for transformative change versus simply addressing smaller pieces in isolation, as is too often the case in educational research. To address this limitation, the discussant will work with the authors to connect their research to valid and complex system-focused research around STEM education for people who are or were incarcerated (Badertscher et al, 2021). The research methodology is Community-based System Dynamics (Hovmand, 2014; CBSD).

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