How African American Middle School Girls Position Themselves as Mathematics and Science Learners
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Previous research has examined African American student achievement, the mathematics and science education of girls, and schooling children in poverty. Through the lens of positionality theory, this study investigated the intersection of all three topics through an examination of African American sixth grade girls and their experience of mathematics and science primary school instruction using focus group and interview data. The findings suggest that the girls possess an awareness of the support they are provided by the school. The outcomes of this study imply the need for interventions that can sustain interest in mathematics and science education among low-income African American school girls to foster career development in this area.
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Positionality, Diversity, African American, Gender Research, Mathematics/Science Education |
The International Journal of Learning, Volume 14, Issue 9, pp.219-228.
Article: Print (Spiral Bound).
Article: Electronic (PDF File; 571.095KB).
Assistant Professor, Department of Counselor Education, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, UNITED STATES
Cirecie A. West-Olatunji, Ph.D. currently serves as Assistant Professor of Counselor Education at the University of Florida. Dr. West-Olatunji is also president of CCMA, an educational consulting firm dedicated to the development of programs that focus on cultural identity and awareness. As a nationally recognized speaker, trainer, and author in the area of culture-centered, theory, research, and practice, she has provided consultation and training in Osaka, Hiroshima, Tottori, and Fukuoka cities in Japan in the area of culturally relevant anti-bias education for young children. Cirecie West-Olatunji has also provided educational consultation to a PBS children's television show on diversity through KCET-TV in Los Angeles, CA ("Puzzle Place"). Dr. West-Olatunji is a graduate of Dartmouth College and attended Teachers College of Columbia University where she pursued graduate studies in the area of Multicultural Counseling Psychology. Cirecie West-Olatunji is president of the Association for Multicultural Counseling & Development.
Associate Professor, School of Teaching and Learning, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, UNITED STATES
Rose M. Pringle is an Associate Professor in the School of Teaching
and Learning at the University of Florida, Gainesville. As a science
educator, her research includes the exploration of preservice
teachers' positionality as science learners, the development of
science specific pedagogy in both prospective and practicing science
teachers, and the translation of these practices into equitable
inquiry-based science experiences for all learners. Of particular
interest, her quest is to increase the participation of minorities,
especially girls of African descent in science related careers. As
such, she is currently exploring the relationships between science
teachers' and counselors' expectations, and the impact on African
American girls' self-perception as science learners.
Associate Professor, School of Teaching and Learning, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, UNITED STATES
Thomasenia Lott Adams is an Associate Professor in the School of
Teaching and Learning. Her current research interests include
teachers' mathematics content knowledge, multicultural mathematics,
and mathematics as a language. She focuses on these topics through a
variety of scholarly activities (e.g., research grant, manuscripts,
professional development). Dr. Adams also teaches undergraduate and
graduate mathematics methods courses as well as courses at the
doctoral level such as Readings and Research in Mathematics Education.
She is also the Director of Graduate Studies for the College of
Education. In this capacity, Dr. Adams supports the graduate education
efforts across the five departments in the college.
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Counselor Education, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, UNITED STATES
Adriana Baratelli is fifth year doctoral candidate in the Department
of Counselor Education at the University of Florida. Her research
interests include body image and self-concept among South American
women.
Doctoral Student, Department of Counselor Education, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, UNITED STATES
Rachael D. Goodman is a fourth year doctoral student in Counselor
Education at the University of Florida. Her research interests include
traumatic stress among socially marginalized and culturally diverse
populations.
Graduate Assistant, Alliance, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, UNITED STATES
Sophie Maxis is currently a School Counseling and Guidance doctoral
student in the Department of Counselor Education, College of Education
at the University of Florida.
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