Student Research Projects

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Student Presentations

Sultan Rana Presents his Research at SITE 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada!!!

DESCRIPTION : 
There is an underrepresentation of racialized people in the STEM field in Canada. There have been studies, reforms, and policies to immigration, post-secondary, secondary and elementary education focusing on what excludes racialized people from the STEM fields. Often, only the systems and institutions racialized people function within are analyzed for their exclusionary practices. Beyond research on inclusion, research needs to embark on the intellectual conditions of racialized students in STEM. This critical ethnographic study explores how growth of critical consciousness of racialized students can impact racialized learners’ identity and agency in a work-integrated STEM context for eleventh-grade high school students. Studies and critical theories related to critical consciousness, pedagogy, empowerment, identity, agency, sociocultural awareness, STEM, and the subjects that comprise it will inform the comprehensive understanding of the relationship between identity and agency to critical consciousness in a STEM context. ​

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Andrew DiVito Presents his Research at PME 2023 in Haifa, Israel!!!

DESCRIPTION : 
​ My research phenomenologically explores how the mathematical modelling of social issues influences the components of STEM identity: competence, performance, and recognition. STEM identity is a social identity theory that refers to how an individual sees themselves as a STEM person. My research aims to understand better the STEM identity shifts experienced by individuals as they experience critical mathematics education in the form of mathematically modelling social justice tasks.

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