Kandiko Howson, C and Kingsbury, M (Eds).
(2024)
Belonging and Identity in STEM Higher Education.
[Book].
UCL Press: London, UK.
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In Belonging and Identity in STEM Higher Education, leading scholars, teachers, practitioners and students explore belonging and identity in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields, and how this is impacted by disciplinary changes and the post-pandemic higher education context. In STEM fields, positivist approaches and a focus on numerical data can lead to assumptions that they are unemotional, impersonal disciplines. The need for mathematical competency, logical thinking and disciplinary contexts can be barriers to engagement, belonging and success in STEM. STEM ways of thinking, such as those underpinning abstract and complex mathematics, can form the basis for new ways of conceptualising belonging for both staff and students, going beyond socio-demographic and cultural differences. In this book, chapters and case study contributions analyse what is unique about STEM educational environments for staff and students in the UK, Ireland, Europe, Scandinavia and Asia. The authors examine the role of STEM pedagogies in facilitating belonging, variable impacts across student characteristics and the experiences STEM students face in their higher education experiences. It provides a valuable resource for those working in equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI), STEM educational researchers and practitioners, as well as offering insights for academics and teachers in STEM higher education.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | Belonging and Identity in STEM Higher Education |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800084988 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800084988 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800084988 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Collection © Editors, 2024 Text © Contributors, 2024 Images © Contributors and copyright holders named in captions, 2024 Any third-party material in this book is not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Howson, C. K. and Kingsbury, M. (eds). 2024. Belonging and Identity in STEM Higher Education. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800084988 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | STEM, Higher Education, Belonging, Identity, Student experience |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10194510 |
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