TY - JOUR
T1 - Affirming and Nurturing Students’ Cultural Wealth to Enhance Self-efficacy
T2 - Examination of Urban High School Students’ Lived Experiences in a STEM-Medicine Pipeline Program
AU - Rocha, Janet
AU - Castillo-Lavergne, Claudia M.
AU - Yancy, Clyde W.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2022.
PY - 2024/4
Y1 - 2024/4
N2 - Embracing students’ cultural assets is critical in facilitating self-growth and development at the secondary level, especially among minoritized students interested in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine/health (STEM-M) careers. Using sociocultural and community cultural wealth (CCW) lenses, longitudinal data among 23 students or 53 semi-structured interviews were analyzed to understand how their participation in an extramural academic program stimulated their self-efficacy. Findings revealed how the program nurtured students’ cultural wealth while promoting their learning, engagement, persistence, and empowerment. Strengthening self-efficacy through the affirmation of cultural assets and through asset-based frameworks can enhance students’ academic and career goals.
AB - Embracing students’ cultural assets is critical in facilitating self-growth and development at the secondary level, especially among minoritized students interested in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine/health (STEM-M) careers. Using sociocultural and community cultural wealth (CCW) lenses, longitudinal data among 23 students or 53 semi-structured interviews were analyzed to understand how their participation in an extramural academic program stimulated their self-efficacy. Findings revealed how the program nurtured students’ cultural wealth while promoting their learning, engagement, persistence, and empowerment. Strengthening self-efficacy through the affirmation of cultural assets and through asset-based frameworks can enhance students’ academic and career goals.
KW - STEM-Medicine/Health
KW - community cultural wealth
KW - longitudinal qualitative study
KW - self-efficacy
KW - sociocultural theory
KW - urban minorities
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U2 - 10.1177/00420859211073897
DO - 10.1177/00420859211073897
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85123245757
SN - 0042-0859
VL - 59
SP - 1012
EP - 1047
JO - Urban Education
JF - Urban Education
IS - 4
ER -