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Title: Near Peer Pedagogies for Culturally Sustaining Computer Science and Mathematics
In this study, College STEM Literacy Workers act as co-teachers in 9th and 10th grade classrooms alongside mathematics teachers as they both learn to integrate a 30-hour integrated computer science/mathematics curriculum. As part of the curriculum for educator learning, we adapted the Algebra Project’s “Model of Excellence” for culturally relevant-sustaining pedagogies. We used the framework to explore how teachers understand College STEM Literacy Workers’ contributions in the model as well as College STEM Literacy Workers’ own experiences in the classroom. We found that while teachers and College STEM Literacy Workers did not individually instantiate the model of excellence, they were able to achieve its constituent components between them. We explore differences between teachers and College STEM Literacy Workers and the ways in which they worked together. We end with implications for a new model of excellence.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2031455
PAR ID:
10486603
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
Armacost Library, University of Redlands
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Journal of Computer Science Integration
Volume:
6
Issue:
1
ISSN:
2574-108X
Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
near-peer, youth, mathematics, computer science, culturally relevant, culturally sustaining
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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