A Critical Exploration of Assumptions Underlying STEM Career Development

2020 ◽  
pp. 089484532097444
Author(s):  
David L. Blustein ◽  
Whitney Erby ◽  
Tera Meerkins ◽  
Isaac Soldz ◽  
Gabriel Nnamdi Ezema
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Stem Career Development ◽  
Stem Career ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Development Movement ◽  
Social Messaging

Significant resources have been invested by multiple entities and institutions into exposing more students and adults to science, technology, education, and mathematics (STEM) education and careers. These efforts have coalesced into a major educational and career development movement within the past few decades. In this article, we present a critical analysis of the STEM movement that seeks to inform dialogue and debate regarding the nature and potential impacts of STEM career development. The article identifies the inherent assumptions about equity, self-determination, meaning, and purpose that underlie the STEM movement, while also acknowledging its many important positive contributions. The potential unintended consequences of STEM interventions and programs as well as the social messaging that accompanies these efforts are reviewed. Future directions for research, practice, and public policy that are informed by this critical analysis conclude this article.

“It’s Like I’m Really There”: Using VR Experiences for STEM Career Development

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Jiang ◽  
Vitaliy Popov ◽  
Yaoran Li ◽  
Perla L. Myers ◽  
Odesma Dalrymple ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Stem Career Development ◽  
Stem Career

The School Counselor and STEM Career Development

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 359-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lia D. Falco
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Career Development ◽  
School Counselors ◽  
School Counselor ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Underrepresented Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
Effective Interventions ◽  
Stem Career Development ◽  
Stem Career

There is an increasing concern that the demand for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) workers in the United States will exceed the supply. In the United States, very few students, and underrepresented students in particular, are pursuing STEM educational and occupational goals that underscores the need for school counselors to understand how to maximize opportunities for student success in STEM. Understanding the factors that influence students’ academic and career choices early on is necessary in order to provide effective interventions and responsive services that will have a positive impact on students’ future STEM career outcomes. Using social-cognitive career theory as a framework, this article synthesizes pertinent research on student STEM engagement, so that school counselors will be better able to support STEM career development for all students, especially those from historically underrepresented groups. Implications for school counseling practice are discussed.

scholarly journals A Qualitative Exploration of STEM Career Development of High School Students in Taiwan

2019 ◽  
pp. 089484531983052 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiaqi Li ◽  
Wei-Cheng Joseph Mau ◽  
Shr-Jya Chen ◽  
Tzu-Chi Lin ◽  
Ting-Yu Lin
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Career Development ◽  
School Students ◽  
Stem Career Development ◽  
Stem Career ◽  
Qualitative Exploration

scholarly journals Digital Health Equity and COVID-19 – The Innovation Curve Cannot Reinforce the Social Gradient of Health (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison Crawford ◽  
Eva Serhal
Keyword(s):  
Health Equity ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Provider Training ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Health Delivery ◽  
Health Innovations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Centered Care ◽  
The Individual

UNSTRUCTURED Digital health innovations have been rapidly implemented and scaled to provide solutions to some health delivery challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic. This has enabled ongoing access to vital health services while minimizing potential exposure to infection and maintaining social distancing. However, these solutions may have unintended consequences on health equity. Poverty, access to digital health, poor engagement with digital health for some communities, and barriers to digital health literacy are some of the factors that can contribute to poor health outcomes. We present the Digital Health Equity Framework, which can be used to consider health equity factors. Along with person-centered care, digital health equity should be incorporated into health provider training, and should be championed the individual, institutional, and social levels. Important future directions will be to develop measurement-based approaches to digital health equity, and to use these findings to further validate and refine this model.

Broadening diversity in STEM: Career development in immigrant college students

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy B. Berman ◽  
Natalie Rochester ◽  
Marie S. Hammond ◽  
S. Keith Hargrove ◽  
William F. Hayslett
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Career Development ◽  
Stem Career Development ◽  
Stem Career ◽  
Diversity In Stem

Examining Urban Students’ Constructions of a STEM/Career Development Intervention Over Time

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. Blustein ◽  
Michael Barnett ◽  
Sheron Mark ◽  
Mark Depot ◽  
Meghan Lovering ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Urban Students ◽  
Development Intervention ◽  
Stem Career Development ◽  
Stem Career ◽  
Over Time

Promoting STEM Career Development Among Students and Parents of Color

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1b) ◽  
pp. 2156759X1877359 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Ann Shillingford ◽  
Seungbin Oh ◽  
Laura Rendell Finnell
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
School Counselors ◽  
Students Of Color ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Stem Career Development ◽  
Stem Career ◽  
Systemic Variables

To date, millions of dollars have been spent in hopes of bolstering an increase among students of color pursuing science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) professions. School counselors are uniquely positioned to contribute to this increase; however, they often miss the significance of their leadership role in improving STEM opportunities, particularly for students of color. The results from this qualitative study point to systemic variables that hinder such engagements and provide implications for school counselors and counselor education programs.

scholarly journals High-Revenue Athletics Institutional Policies and Practices Aligned with Key Resources for STEM Career Development

2021 ◽  
pp. 113-139
Author(s):  
Sheron Mark
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Academic Support ◽  
Division I ◽  
Institutional Policies ◽  
Stem Career Development ◽  
Stem Career ◽  
Study Hall ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Policies And Practices

This study sought to explore the ways in which athletics departments within high-revenue National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I universities established institutional policies and practices aligned with providing key science, technology, engineering, and mathematics career development resources. These resources were derived from an earlier study focused on Black male student-athletes in high-revenue Division I athletics. The athletics department websites of a sample of high-revenue Atlantic Coast Conference institutions were reviewed seeking evidence of such policy and practice alignment with STEM career development. The resources identified from this review included explicit programming and student-athlete experiences for career, personal, and cultural identity development; designated institutional support personnel, including academic advisers, career counselors, and learning specialists, with the potential to provide personalized social support and academic support; and tutoring and study hall as additional academic support practices. The need for equity and student-centeredness is discussed in light of the implementation of each of these resources, as well as considerations of the impact of athletics departments demonstrating leadership and accountability in administering these resources, as compared to university-wide departments of academic and student affairs.

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