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Cisheteronormativity is prevalent throughout college STEM discourses and classrooms. In this paper, we present findings from a U.S. based study focused on the experiences of collegiate STEM students with minoritized identities of sexuality and gender (MIoSG) as the backdrop for discussing how current harmful ideologies in STEM perpetuate cisheteronormativity through discursive practice. We propose that humanistic classrooms and pedagogy can work to dismantle cisheteronormative D/discourses in STEM and create MIoSG inclusive STEM classrooms and programs. Our findings highlight the ways participants experienced cisheteronormative D/discourses in their collegiate STEM contexts. We discuss how these experiences might be mitigated through humanistic educational approaches in college STEM contexts. Our aim is for readers to gain simultaneous theoretical and pragmatic insights on how cisheteronormative D/ discourses operate in collegiate STEM classrooms and educational programs.
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978-2-8325-5466-1
Publication Date
5-17-2023
Publisher
Frontiers
Keywords
STEM education, LGBTQIA+, critical discourse analysis, grounded theory, MIoSG
Disciplines
Curriculum and Instruction | Curriculum and Social Inquiry | Higher Education | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies | Medical Education | Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Other Life Sciences | Other Medicine and Health Sciences | Other Physical Sciences and Mathematics | Queer Studies | Science and Mathematics Education | Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education
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Jones MC, Forsythe D, Friedensen R, Vaccaro A, Miller RA, Kimball E and Forester R (2023) Disrupting cisheteronormativity in STEM through humanism. Front. Educ. 8:1154275. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1154275
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In Bryan Dewsbury, Susannah McGowan, Sheila S. Jaswal and Desiree Forsythe (Eds.), Centering Humanism in STEM Education.