“Making Communities”: Reimagining Cohort-Based Education Through Participatory and Community-Engaged Research in STEM (Table 24)

• In Event: Saturday Roundtable 7:45 am

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

Although there has been an emphasis on community-engaged approaches to research in the broader field of education these approaches are rarely utilized in the academic fields of STEM and STEM education research. This symposium presents three papers drawn from a large community-engaged postdoctoral fellowship program at Michigan State University to 1) explore the storied process of developing a large-scale proposal to recruit postdoctoral scholars in STEM using community and participatory approaches; 2) describe the personal and shared experiences of making community through a collaborative and connected auto-ethnographic methodology; and 3) demonstrate the value in theorizing and reimagining Indigenous perspectives toward building a sense of belonging and community.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 5: Inquiry, Transformation, and Communities

Chair

• Julie Libarkin, Michigan State University

Papers

• Using Participatory and Community-Engaged Practices for Large-Scale Proposal Development - Emiko Blalock, Michigan State University; Julie Libarkin, Michigan State University

• (Re)Conceptualizing STEM Education as Community Building: A Connective Ethnography - Lili Yan, Michigan State University; Kriya Issa Anguluan Velasco, Michigan State University; Carolin Michel, CGC Geoscience Department

• (Re)Imagining Indigenous Educational Futures Through Building Community Objectives - Kehli Henry, Michigan State University; Lara Jacobs, Michigan State University; Salvador Huitzilopochtli, Michigan State University