Hispanic-Serving Institutions as Crucial Sites to Promote, Transform, and Re-Imagine STEM Education for Intersectional Justice

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Thursday 2:15pm
  In Poster Session: Division G VP Session: The Social Context of Education and MSI's

Abstract

This invited paper presentation leverages insights from my research studies in partnership with Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) that elucidate current opportunities and future possibilities for affirming the intersectionality of Latiné student experiences in STEM. Prior research has shown that, despite HSIs’ missions of fostering cultural responsiveness (or “servingness”), such campuswide support for Latiné students across intersections of social difference (including race, gender, class, and sexuality) is pervasively limited in STEM educational contexts. My counter-storytelling analyses of undergraduate Latiné experiences capture the potential of classroom instruction and university programming to promote continuity of intersectional servingness in STEM across the HSI campus ecosystem.

Author

• Luis Antonio Leyva, Vanderbilt University