Reimagining Methodological Approaches for Disrupting Anti-Blackness in STEM Education

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

In this session, we will discuss innovative methodological approaches researchers can use to examine how educators, scholar activists, and collaborators work to disrupt anti-Blackness in PK – 20 STEM learning environments. Scholars in this session are guided by the desire to move beyond narratives that place a hyper-focus on the pervasiveness of anti-Blackness in STEM classrooms to, instead, address how to disrupt anti-Blackness. As such, the session papers focus on critical methodological approaches across STEM contexts that decenter whiteness. In doing so, this session contributes to our understanding of (re)humanizing research and pedagogical practices across STEM contexts, essential elements of (re)designing classrooms for equity, and transformative ways scholars in the field can approach this line of research.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Erica D. McCray, University of Florida

Papers

• Disrupting Anti-Blackness in Early Childhood Education: Thinking with Refusal - Fikile Nxumalo, University of Toronto

• Utilizing Multimodal Counterstories to Illuminate Humanizing Approaches in K–12 STEM Classrooms - Tia C. Madkins, The University of Texas at Austin; Karisma Morton, University of North Texas

• Using a Multidimensional-Multiplicative Lens to Examine and Disrupt Anti-Blackness in Postsecondary STEM Education - Terrell Roderick Morton, University of Missouri - Columbia; Nickolaus Alexander Ortiz, Georgia State University; Yasmiyn Irizarry, The University of Texas at Austin

• Critically Examining STEM Faculty and Teacher Educators' Intersectional Competence - Mildred Boveda, The Pennsylvania State University; Nicol R. Howard, University of Redlands

Discussant

• Kimberley Gomez, University of California - Los Angeles