Girls and women of color in STEM : navigating the double bind in K-12 education / edited by Barbara Polnick, Julia Ballenger, Beverly J. Irby, Nahed Abdelrahman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Polnick, Barbara, editor.

Irby, Beverly J., editor.

Ballenger, Julia, 1949- editor.

Abdelrahman, Nahed, editor.

Series:

Research on women and education.

Research on women and education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American girls--Education.

African American girls.

Science--Study and teaching (Elementary).

Science.

Science--Study and teaching (Secondary).

Mathematics--Study and teaching (Elementary).

Mathematics.

Mathematics--Study and teaching (Secondary).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 264 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Charlotte, NC : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2020]

Summary:

"At no time in our period in history is it more important for us to engage the untapped resource of women of color in today's workforce, specifically in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Girls and women of color bring culturally different understandings and experiences that can be leveraged to innovatively solve complex problems. It is both timely and imperative that education and career efforts work to build the capacity of girls and women of color to advance in STEM fields. This book is a culmination of research on the issues and challenges (and successes!) for girls and young women in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Authors in these thirteen chapters share their research on the impact of current practices in schools and related educational settings, as well as effective interventions that illustrate ways to assist and promote girls and women of color to navigate the double bind in STEM fields today. The chapters address issues experienced across multiple ethnicities and races and span a broad range of settings from early childhood to high school to higher education. The book is organized around two parts: those studies focused on partnerships and professional development outside the school walls and those studies of girls and young women of color within schools"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword / Sonia J. Garcia

Introduction / Beverly Irby, Barbara Polnick, Julia Ballenger, and Nahed Abdelrahman

Chapter 1. Advancing black female and latina collegians in stem: Mitigating challenges through stem enrichment program opportunities / Tonisha B. Lane, Melissa Soto, and Kyaien O'Conner

Chapter 2. The affordances and constraints of social networks among latina engineering students / Erika Mein, Alberto Esquinca, Elsa Villa, and Angelica Monarrez

Chapter 3. Challenges and sources of support for latina undergraduate and graduate students in stem disciplines / Liza Renee Lizcano and Rosalía Chávez Zárate

Chapter 4. Closing faculty ranks: Black women mathematics education faculty navigating across career stages / Erika Bullock, Jacqueline Leonard, Joi Spencer, and Erica Walker

Chapter 5. Colorful portraits of success: Black women with doctorates in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (stem) / Virginia C. Tickles and Krystal A. Foxx

Chapter 6. We should all help each other: Latina undergraduates overcoming barriers in computing / Heather Thiry and Sarah Hug

Chapter 7. How an African American female accomplishes her goals to get to higher education / Solongo Chuluunbaatar

Chapter 8. Life in the double bind: An investigation of how the experiences of African American females influence their performance in freshman chemistry / Natasha Hillsman Johnson

Chapter 9. Making stem real for African American female preservice science teachers: Issues of learning and teaching in science and math education courses in virginia / Clair Berube, Melva Grant, Patti Horne-Hastings, and SueAnn McKinney

About the Editors

About the Authors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

ISBN:

1-64802-099-2