Cultivating Capital: Sustaining the STEM Identities of Rural Latinx Youth

Autor/inn/en	De La Torre, Corina; Dobis, Corrie
Titel	Cultivating Capital: Sustaining the STEM Identities of Rural Latinx Youth
Quelle	In: Journal of Interdisciplinary Teacher Leadership, 6 (2022) 1, S.234-263 (30 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Rural Youth; Hispanic Americans; Identification (Psychology); Self Concept; Cultural Capital; Disproportionate Representation; STEM Education; Careers; Adolescent Development; Influences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rural area; Rural areas; Youth; Ländlicher Raum; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Selbstkonzept; STEM; Career; Karriere; Influence; Einfluss; Einflussfaktor
Abstract	This paper seeks to explore how rural Latinx students' STEM identity development can be fostered by utilizing their cultural capital. By both a community cultural wealth and science identity model, this paper reviews previous literature to conceptualize how and why rural Latinx youth are continuously underrepresented within STEM education and future career pathways. When forming STEM identities and aspirations for the future, Latinx students draw from six forms of capital- "aspirational," "linguistic," "familial," "social," "navigational," and "resistant." Throughout this paper, we discuss each of these six forms of capital wealth and the value rural Latinx students can bring into STEM educational spaces. Supporting rural Latinx students' STEM identity development is a vital key to the disruption of systemic inequalities that perpetuate societal and institutional spaces. Conclusions drawn from the literature showcase how cultural wealth sustains the development of Latinx students' STEM identities. Future considerations need to focus on the STEM disparities that still exist for this population of students, specifically those in rural communities. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01