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Underrepresented Populations in Educational Makerspaces: The Voice of African American Female Students

Timmons, Thomas David

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2020, Doctor of Education, Miami University, Educational Leadership.
What are the barriers that implicitly and explicitly exclude or disinvite African American females from high school Educational MakerSpaces? This narrative inquiry utilizes vignette surveys to engage two African American female students in a scenario about a girl named Lisa who makes a difficult choice of whether to enroll in a program which has an Educational MakerSpace she sees filled with White boys. The narratives from these students are reinforced by the narrative texts collected from three African American female adults who had previously participated in a high school Educational MakerSpace and who engaged in this survey and participated in a focus group. Applying the lenses of Whiteness in Education and Maleness in MakerSpaces, the narratives of these participants are then also used to identify three barriers and two powerful counterbalances to these barriers, both of which can serve to inform future research. These narratives also suggest targets educators can use to develop strategies to begin to address these barriers.
Lucian Szlizewski, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Joel Malin, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Sheri Leafgren, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
59 p.

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  • Timmons, T. D. (2020). Underrepresented Populations in Educational Makerspaces: The Voice of African American Female Students [Doctoral dissertation, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1586349847069158

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Timmons, Thomas. Underrepresented Populations in Educational Makerspaces: The Voice of African American Female Students . 2020. Miami University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1586349847069158.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Timmons, Thomas. "Underrepresented Populations in Educational Makerspaces: The Voice of African American Female Students ." Doctoral dissertation, Miami University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1586349847069158

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)