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Belonging and Identity in STEM Higher Education
In Belonging and Identity in STEM Higher Education, Camille Kandiko Howson and Martyn Kingsbury examine the role of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) pedagogies in facilitating belonging, variable impacts across student characteristics, and the experiences of STEM students in higher education. Through case study contributions, the book analyzes the unique educational environments for STEM staff and students throughout Europe and Asia, challenging the assumptions that STEM fields are inherently unemotional and impersonal disciplines.
356 pages | 2 halftones, 6 line drawings, 15 tables | 6.14 x 9.21 | © 2024
Education: Higher Education
Table of Contents
List of figures and tables
Notes on contributors
Introduction
Camille Kandiko Howson and Martyn Kingsbury
Part I: What is, and is not, belonging?
1 STEM ways of thinking: belonging and identity
Camille Kandiko Howson and Martyn Kingsbury
2 Hospitality and belonging: insiders and outsiders in STEM higher education
Sheena Hyland
3 Belonging and engaging for successful transition to university
Alison Voice, Rob Purdy, Nicolas Labrosse and Helen Heath
4 Is belonging always positive? Cultivating alternative and oppositional belonging at university
Órla Meadhbh Murray, Yuan-Li Tiffany Chiu and Jo Horsburgh
5 Inclusive excellence in STEM higher education
Camille Kandiko Howson and Martyn Kingsbury
Part II: Identities and belonging in STEM
6 Understanding the sense of belonging and social identity among STEM students during the Covid-19 pandemic
Liisa Myyry, Veera Kallunki and Ganapati Sahoo
7 Inside(r) out(sider): building belonging and identity in the non-disciplinary classroom
Elizabeth Hauke
8 Barriers to belonging for racially minoritised students in STEM higher education
Billy Wong, Meggie Copsey-Blake and Reham El Morally
9 Stereotypes and their influence on belonging in UK physics
Amy Smith
10 An intersectional lens to the formation of STEM identity: beyond gender
Salma M.S. Al Arefi
11 Higher education teachers’ identity development and sense of belonging
Jo Horsburgh
Part III: Supporting belonging and alternative ways of engaging
12 Active learning and Japanese students’ belonging in mathematics, physics and chemistry
Fujio Ohmori, Jun Saito and Hisao Suzuki
13 Belonging in the ecotone: a case study from a STEM higher education context
Luke McCrone
14 Can science be inclusive? Belonging and identity when you are disabled, chronically ill or neurodivergent
Jennifer Leigh, Julia Sarju and Anna Slater
15 Exploring students’ sense of belonging to engineering in authentic interdisciplinary project-based teamwork
Lillian Y.Y. Luk, Inês Direito, Kate Roach and John Mitchell
16 How to meet students’ need for belonging during undergraduate research engagement: a case study within medicine
Belinda Ommering and Friedo Dekker
17 Fostering belonging through student-staff research partnerships
Ian M. Kinchin, Karen Gravett, Cathy Derham and Alfred Thumser
Index