Edna Tan, PhD, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Edna Tan, PhD, is a professor of science education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her collaborative research investigates the design, support, and outcomes of equitable and consequential STEM learning for historically minoritized youth across learning contexts and over time.

This talk explores the inadequacy of framing equity in STEM education merely as inclusion into the established culture of
canonical STEM reflexive solely of the epistemologies, ontologies, and axiologies of White middle-class
heteropatriarchy. I introduce the framework of Rightful Presence as an approach to more critically, 1) survey the terrain
of inequities in STEM education for minoritized populations as historical, systemic, and enduring that are manifested in
particular, local ways, and the role of fostering more expansive epistemologies, ontologies, and axiologies in disrupting
such inequities; 2) highlight the need to consider the temporal arc – past, present, future – of how minoritized youth
engage with STEM across spaces as negotiated through particular social-spatial relationalities; and 3) consider what is
entailed in terms of the design of justice-oriented STEM learning environments and pedagogical approach, to expand
the epistemologies, ontologies, and axiologies of STEM to be reflexive of historically underrepresented Youth of Color
and minoritized groups in STEM.

 

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