Qualitative Research in STEM: Studies of Equity, Access, and by Sherry Marx

By Sherry Marx

Qualitative study in STEM examines the groundbreaking power of qualitative learn how you can handle problems with social justice, fairness, and sustainability in STEM. a set of empirical experiences carried out through widespread STEM researchers, this ebook examines the stories and demanding situations confronted by means of usually marginalized teams in STEM, such a lot significantly culturally and linguistically different scholars and girls. Investigations into those matters, in addition to the excessive dropout expense between engineering scholars and problems with educational integrity in STEM, include distinct factors of the research methodologies utilized in every one case. individuals additionally offer own narratives that proportion their views at the advantages of qualitative examine methodologies for the subjects explored. via a number of qualitative methodologies, together with participatory motion examine, Indigenous learn, and important ethnography, this quantity goals to bare and treatment the inequalities inside STEM schooling today.

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