Please Join Me/Us/Them on My/Our/Their Journey to Justice in STEM

IF 2.1 2区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, EDUCATIONAL

Discourse Processes Pub Date : 2022-03-15 DOI:10.1080/0163853X.2022.2050084

Rod D. Roscoe

引用次数: 3

Abstract

ABSTRACT Despite decades of effort to broaden participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), many fields remain demographically skewed. Marginalized and minoritized people are still underrepresented in and underserved by the sciences. In this paper, the author considers the question, “How do we improve representation in STEM?” by reflecting on his own journey and themes such as imposter syndrome, decentering, meritocracy, and activism. Importantly, “underrepresentation” is not a mysterious happenstance but rather a predictable outcome of systemic inequity and systematic exclusion. By attending to the mechanisms of oppression, we can enact interventions that address root causes instead of symptoms. There are multiple ways that our research, teaching, and practice might change “the system” by making inclusion and equity the focus of our work, applying these principles to frame research questions and interpret findings, and adopting methods and practices that are inclusive and equitable.

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请加入我/我们/他们的STEM正义之旅

摘要尽管几十年来一直在努力扩大科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）领域的参与度，但许多领域仍然存在人口统计学上的偏差。边缘化和少数民族仍然在科学领域代表性不足，服务不足。在这篇论文中，作者通过反思自己的历程和主题，如冒名顶替综合症、体面、精英政治和激进主义，思考了“我们如何提高STEM的代表性？”这个问题。重要的是，“代表性不足”不是一种神秘的偶然现象，而是系统性不平等和系统性排斥的可预测结果。通过关注压迫机制，我们可以制定解决根本原因而不是症状的干预措施。我们的研究、教学和实践可以通过多种方式改变“系统”，将包容和公平作为我们工作的重点，应用这些原则来构建研究问题和解释研究结果，并采用包容性和公平的方法和实践。

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来源期刊

Discourse Processes Multiple-

CiteScore

4.30

自引率

4.50%

发文量

期刊介绍： Discourse Processes is a multidisciplinary journal providing a forum for cross-fertilization of ideas from diverse disciplines sharing a common interest in discourse--prose comprehension and recall, dialogue analysis, text grammar construction, computer simulation of natural language, cross-cultural comparisons of communicative competence, or related topics. The problems posed by multisentence contexts and the methods required to investigate them, although not always unique to discourse, are sufficiently distinct so as to require an organized mode of scientific interaction made possible through the journal.