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Weaving Awareness of Race and Power into STEM Courses

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On Inclusive Pedagogy

Aragón,Oriana R. et al, "Colorblind and Multicultural Ideologies Are Associated With Faculty Adoption of Inclusive Teaching Practices," Journal of Diversity in Higher Education (2017)

Asai, David, "To Learn Inclusion Skills, make it Personal," Nature (London), vol. 565, no. 7741, 2019, pp. 537-537.

Ayshford, Emily , "Making Science More Equitable, Starting with 101," symmetry (July 7, 2020)

Canning, Elizabeth A. et al, "STEM faculty who believe ability is fixed have larger racial achievement gaps and inspire less student motivation in their classes," Science Advances (Feb. 15, 2019)

Killpack,Tess L. and Laverne C. Melón, "Toward Inclusive STEM Classrooms: What Personal Role Do Faculty Play?," CBE Life Sciences Education (Fall 2016)

Sathy,Viji and Kelly A. Hogan, “How to Make Your Teaching More Inclusive,” Chronicle of Higher Education (July 22, 2019)

Tanner, Kimberly D., "Structure Matters: Twenty-One Teaching Strategies to Promote Student Engagement and Cultivate Classroom Equity," CBE Life Sciences Education, vol. 12, no. 3, 2013, pp. 322-331

Sathy, V., & Hogan, K. A. (2022). Inclusive teaching: Strategies for promoting equity in the college classroom. Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2022.

On Science, Anti-Science, and Ways of Knowing

"Racism: Overcoming science's toxic legacy", Nature special issue (Oct 20, 2022), eds. Melissa Nobles, Chad Womack, Ambroise Wonkam and Elizabeth Wathuti.

Robert Harrington, “The Rise of Peer Review: Melinda Baldwin on the History of Refereeing at Scientific Journals and Funding Bodies,” The Scholarly Kitchen (September 26, 2018)

Amanda Heidt, "Sweeping report calls for anti-bias measures in US science," Nature, March 16, 2023

Robin Wall Kimmerer, “Learning the Language of Animacy,” in Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigeneous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants (Minneapolis: Milkweed, 2013), 48-59 [Colby, Bates, Bowdoin eBook]

Lerback, Jory C., et al, "Community Voices: Achieving Real Diversity in STEM Requires the Ability to Transform Institutions," Nature Communications, vol. 13, no. 1, 2022, pp. 1684-1684

Kim Pearson, “Teaching Race Across Disciplines using Interdisciplinary Collaboration,” (July 10, 2020)

Rohan Deb Roy, “Science Still Bears the Fingerprints of Colonialism,” The Conversation (April 5, 2018)

Steven Shapin, “How to Be Antiscientific,” in Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as if It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010), 32-46 [Colby Science Q175.5 .S465 2010]

Steven Shapin, “Invisible Science: The Scientization of the Ordinary,” Hedgehog Review (Fall 2016)

Amy E. Slaton, “Huts; or, The Impossible Innocence of Science,” (January 3, 2018)

Persistence in STEM

Kevin R. Binning et al, "Changing Social Contexts to Foster Equity in College Science Courses: An Ecological-Belonging Intervention," Psychological Science (2020)

Mica Estrada et al, "Improving Underrepresented Minority Student Persistence in STEM," CBE—Life Sciences Education (Oct. 13, 2017)

Mark J. Graham et al, "Increasing Persistence of College Students in STEM," Science Education (Sep. 27, 2013)

Neil Hatfield, Nathanial Brown, Chad M Topaz, "Do introductory courses disproportionately drive minoritized students out of STEM pathways?", PNAS Nexus, Volume 1, Issue 4, September 2022, pgac167

Anthony Jack, "On diversity, access ain't inclusion," TEDxCambridge (June 13, 2019)

Elli J. Theobald et al, "Active learning narrows achievement gaps for underrepresented students in undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and math," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Mar 2020)

Athene Donald. (2023). Not Just for the Boys: Why We Need More Women in Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 

On Identity Formation in Science

W. Malcolm Byrnes, “EE Just and Creativity in Science: The Importance of Diversity,” Journal of African American Studies 19:3 (2015): 264-278

Athena R. Castro and Christopher S. Collins, “Asian American Women in STEM in the Lab with ‘White Men Named John,’” Science Education 105:1 (January 2021): 33-61

Kimberlé Crenshaw, "The Urgency of Intersectionality," TEDWomen (Oct. 2016)

Ron Eglash, et al, “Culturally Situated Design Tools: Ethnocomputing from Field Site to Classroom,” American Anthropologist 108:2 (2006): 347-362

Jeremiah A. Henning et al, "Hidden Identities Shape Student Perceptions of Active Learning Environments," Frontiers in Education (Nov. 5, 2019)

Harrison, Colin, and Kimberly D Tanner, “Language Matters: Considering Microaggressions in Science,” CBE life sciences education vol. 17,1 (2018): fe4

Helen E. Longino, “Can There Be a Feminist Science?” Hypatia 2:3 (Autumn 1987): 51-64

Chandra Prescod-Weinstein, “The Diversity Racket,” Medium (July 14, 2015)

Sepehr Vakil and Rick Ayers, “The Racial Politics of STEM Education in the USA: Interrogations and Explorations,” Race, Ethnicity and Education 22 (2019): 449-458