Equity-Oriented, Discipline-Based STEM Education Research: (19 Critical Studies of Education)

This open access book provides a review of research studies, theoretical and conceptual frameworks, methodology, and results in discipline-based Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education research (DBER). It includes frameworks that examine the engagement of diverse learners, and that desettle and disrupt existing norms of STEM and STEM education. It showcases a collection of works from diverse scholars engaged in DBER scholarship and practice, and aims to transform postsecondary STEM teaching and learning. Through these, this book guides in the building of practices that foster the expansion and diversification of postsecondary STEM education, and STEM career advancement.

Table of Contents:
The Imperative of Equity Oriented Discipline based STEM Education Research.- Liberal ideologies in academic STEM How faculty reproduce racial inequities.- Critical Race Theory with applications to DBER.- QuantCrit as a Methodological Framework for Equity Centered Discipline Based Education Research.- Moving beyond deficit DisCrit and Disability Justice in STEM postsecondary education.- Disabled by design Dreaming the future of DBER through intersectional disobedience.- Political Disability Identity and DBER Disability Politics.- Addressing Biases through Decoloniality and Belonging in STEM A Cross Disciplinary Dialogue.- Un Diluting the Diaspora Acknowledging Cultural Identity Intersections in Postsecondary STEM Education.- Its in the way we talk Exploring the use of everyday language in teaching technical content STEM learning environments.- From Here to Equity Promoting STEM Inclusion and Equity by Engaging in Authentic Field Based Ecology Experiences.- Promoting a Culture of Inclusion in Graduate Engineering Education A Case Study.- Cultural and systemic barriers to graduate STEM education.- Theoretical and methodological innovative futures for physics in postsecondary contexts.

About the Author :
Jennifer D. Adams is a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair of Creativity and Science, and Associate Professor at The University of Calgary, Canada, where she holds a dual appointment in the Department of Chemistry and Werklund School of Education. Her research focuses on the intersection between creativity and science teaching and learning in postsecondary contexts. More specifically, she examines challenges to diversity in science in Canada and the United States, and how this impedes scientific creativity and innovation. She has scholarly expertise in science teaching and learning in informal science contexts, including museums, national parks and everyday settings. Jennifer's scholarship also includes youth learning and identity in informal science contexts, with a focus on underrepresented youth and place/identity in transnational communities and environmental education. Her work emphasizes critical and sociocultural frameworks and participatory, qualitative, poststructural approaches. Prior to her appointment at the University of Calgary, she was at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York, United States. She has also worked as a teacher and researcher in New York City public schools, and at the American Museum of Natural History. Geraldine L. Cochran is an Associate Professor of Physics at The Ohio State University. Cochran is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and a Fellow of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT). Cochran has extensive experience conducting equity-oriented physics education research that spans multiple levels of physics education including high school curricula, introductory collegiate level curricula, assessment in graduate education, and mentorship within the physics workforce. Cochran also investigates the experiences of marginalized people at various points in the academic pathway in physics, and interventions and programs aimed at making physics more equitable. Cochran is the Principal Investigator of the Transforming Introductory Physics Sequences to Support all Students (TIPSSS) project. TIPSSS is a network of instructors and researchers committed to transforming physics courses to support students' success regardless of their math participation.