Pathways to Educational Justice for Students of Color in STEM and Beyond

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium directly addresses the 2024 AERA Conference Theme, “Dismantling Racial Injustice and Constructing Educational Possibilities,” primarily in the context of STEM education for minoritized students of color in the US. The symposium is planned as a panel discussion among the authors of four recently published books, all based on in-depth longitudinal studies of students of color in the US. The students were low-income; Black, Brown, or Asian; predominantly girls or young women, and high achieving in school. The studies spanned students’ experiences in elementary school through college and beyond. The authors draw on cultural and structural theoretical perspectives to expose racial and gender injustices the students faced and to propose genuine possibilities for justice-oriented change.

Sub Unit

• Division L - Educational Policies and Politics / Division L - Section 7: Social Context and Structural Inequalities

Chair

• Jessica Fiorillo, Harvard Education Press

Papers

• Black Girls’ Intersectional Narratives in Mathematics Teaching and Learning Contexts - Nicole M. Joseph, Vanderbilt University

• The Potential of “Racial Opportunity Cost” for Dismantling Racial injustice and Constructing Educational Possibilities - Terah T. Venzant Chambers, Michigan State University

• A Justice-Oriented Approach to Supporting Women of Color in Physics Higher Education - Maria Ong, TERC

• STEM Education Reform With Minoritized High School Students: It’s Complicated; It’s Consequential; Is It Just? - Margaret A. Eisenhart, University of Colorado - Boulder; Lois Weis, University at Buffalo - SUNY

Discussant

• Gloria J. Ladson-Billings, University of Wisconsin - Madison