Lo Mejor Esta Por Venir: Reimagining Family STEM Nights con Platicas

• In Event: All in the Family: Renewal and Repair Through Family-Centered and Community-Driven Approaches

Abstract

Through the lens of Chicana Feminist Epistemology and Community Cultural Wealth, we employ the use of Platicas as a methodology to collaborate with Latina caregivers in a central Texas school district to help us reimagine our design of family STEM nights. We observe distinct forms of cultural capital from Latinas as they enact a facilitator role in STEM learning, and through their stories they shed a light on oppressive barriers in informal spaces that prevent them from participating to their fullest.

Authors

• Gerardo Sanchez Gutierrez, University of Texas at Austin

• Carlos Nicolas Gómez Marchant, University of Texas at Austin

• Alexandra Aguilar, University of Texas at Austin

• Amy Rae Johnson, University of Texas at Austin