The Making of Future Scientists: Faculty Mentor Cultural Awareness and Inclusive Science Labs.

ABSTRACT: A compelling body of research suggests that students from racially marginalized and minoritized (RMM) backgrounds are systematically deterred from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields when teachers and scientists create ideologically colorblind STEM learning environments where cultural differences are deemed irrelevant and disregard how race/ethnicity shapes students' experiences. We examine whether and how STEM faculty can serve as important sources of information that signal racial/ethnic diversity inclusion (or exclusion) that influence RMM students' motivation to persist in STEM. Specifically, we focus on RMM students' perceptions of their faculty research mentors' cultural awareness-the extent to which students believe that their faculty research mentor acknowledge

SUBMITTER: Hernandez IA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11440733 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature