What Difference Does Difference Make? A Case Study of Racial and Ethnic Diversity in a Summer Intensive Research Institute
Tryphenia Peele-Eady,,
Tahira Reid
Abstract:In this paper, we draw on the tenets of culturally responsive pedagogy and the communities of practice framework to explore how differences, specifically race, ethnicity, and gender, functioned in a Summer Intensive Research Institute (SIRI). Part of a larger NSF research project, SIRI was designed to increase persistence and diversity in engineering and cyberphysical systems (CPS) education and in the workforce. For eight weeks, two cohorts of students from mostly historically underrepresented and minoritized… Show more
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