scholarly journals In Search of Scientific Identity: Reflections on Intercultural Partnership, Fieldwork, and Researcher’s Engagement

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marzena Maciulewicz
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Identity

scholarly journals “Looking at Myself in the Future”: how mentoring shapes scientific identity for STEM students from underrepresented groups

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaitlyn Atkins ◽  
Bryan M. Dougan ◽  
Michelle S. Dromgold-Sermen ◽  
Hannah Potter ◽  
Viji Sathy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Career Pathways ◽  
Underrepresented Minority ◽  
Stem Fields ◽  
Underrepresented Minority Students ◽  
Research Mentorship ◽  
Demographic Similarity ◽  
Stem Students ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Scientific Identity ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Background Mentorship has been well-established in the literature as fostering scientific identity and career pathways for underrepresented minority students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. Mentorship is prioritized by programs that aim to increase diversity and support future leadership in STEM fields, but in-depth understanding of mentorship in these contexts remains limited. Drawing on qualitative interview data, we sought to understand the relationship between mentoring and scientific identity among a diverse sample of 24 students in one such program, in order to inform program development. Results Qualitative analysis of the data revealed that mentorship, especially research mentorship, was common and played a role in formation of scientific identity. Students with research mentors tended to say they strongly identified as scientists, whereas those who lacked research mentorship varied in their level of scientific identity. In interviews, research-mentored students described mentors as colleagues who gave them opportunities to grow and as examples to look up to. Students valued mentors with whom they identified on the basis of demographic similarity or shared values, as well as those who challenged them in their academic and research endeavors. Conclusions Our analysis highlights how different mentoring experiences can contribute to development of future STEM leadership. We discuss implications for practice, including the need for tailored mentoring approaches and research-focused mentoring, and offer several recommendations for research and programming.

Harmonious Investigators of Nature: Music and the Persona of the German Naturforscher in the Nineteenth Century

2003 ◽  
Vol 16 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 121-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myles Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Folk Songs ◽  
Cultural Resource ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Crucial Component ◽  
Choral Society ◽  
Scientific Identity ◽  
German Association

ArgumentDuring the early nineteenth century, the German Association of Investigators of Nature and Physicians (Versammlung Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte) drew upon the cultural resource of choral-society songs as a way to promote male camaraderie and intellectual collaboration. Investigators of nature and physicians wished to forge a unified, scientific identity in the absence of a national one, and music played a critical role in its establishment. During the 1820s and 30s, Liedertafel and folk songs formed a crucial component of their annual meetings. The lyrics of these tunes, whose melodies were famous folk songs, were rewritten to reflect the lives of investigators of nature and physicians. Indeed, the singing of these Liedertafel songs played an important part in the cultivation of the Naturforschers’ persona well into the twentieth century.

The Engineer

Rebel Genius ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tara H. Abraham
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Reticular Formation ◽  
Research Laboratory ◽  
Biological Systems ◽  
Theoretical Modelling ◽  
Research Culture ◽  
Cognitive Sciences ◽  
New Research ◽  
Scientific Identity ◽  
The Brain

This chapter examines the ways that McCulloch’s new research culture at MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics shaped the evolution of his scientific identity into that of an engineer. This was an open, fluid, multidisciplinary culture that allowed McCulloch to shift his focus more squarely onto understanding the brain from the perspective of theoretical modelling, and to promote the cybernetic vision to diverse audiences. McCulloch’s practices, performed with a new set of student-collaborators, involved modeling the neurophysiology of perception, understanding reliability in biological systems, and pursuing knowledge of the reticular formation of the brain. The chapter provides a nuanced account of the relations between McCulloch’s work and the emerging fields of artificial intelligence and the cognitive sciences. It also highlights McCulloch’s identities as sage-collaborator and polymath, two roles that in part were the result of his students’ observations and in part products of his own self-fashioning.

scholarly journals Breaking Groupthink: Why Scientific Identity and Norms Mitigate Ideological Epistemology

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-72
Author(s):  
Jay J. Van Bavel ◽  
Diego A. Reinero ◽  
Elizabeth Harris ◽  
Claire E. Robertson ◽  
Philip Pärnamets
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Identity

scholarly journals Competing Discourses of Scientific Identity among Postdoctoral Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. ar29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca M. Price ◽  
Ira Kantrowitz-Gordon ◽  
Sharona E. Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Career Goals ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Biomedical Sciences ◽  
Future Goals ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
Career Options ◽  
Scientific Identity ◽  
Low Pay ◽  
Bench Scientist

The postdoctoral period is generally one of low pay, long hours, and uncertainty about future career options. To better understand how postdocs conceive of their present and future goals, we asked researchers about their scientific identities while they were in their postdoctoral appointments. We used discourse analysis to analyze interviews with 30 scholars from a research-intensive university or nearby research institutions to better understand how their scientific identities influenced their career goals. We identified two primary discourses: bench scientist and principal investigator (PI). The bench scientist discourse is characterized by implementing other people’s scientific visions through work in the laboratory and expertise in experimental design and troubleshooting. The PI discourse is characterized by a focus on formulating scientific visions, obtaining funding, and disseminating results through publishing papers and at invited talks. Because these discourses represent beliefs, they can—and do—limit postdocs’ understandings of what career opportunities exist and the transferability of skills to different careers. Understanding the bench scientist and PI discourses, and how they interact, is essential for developing and implementing better professional development programs for postdocs.

Examining the Role of Scientific Identity in Black Student Retention in a STEM Scholar Program

2020 ◽  
Vol 88 (3) ◽  
pp. 229
Author(s):  
Oseguera ◽  
Park ◽  
De Los Rios ◽  
Aparicio ◽  
Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Student Retention ◽  
Black Student ◽  
Scientific Identity

Citizens or Cosmopolitans? Constructing Scientific Identity in the Early American College

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam R. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Research University ◽  
Public Support ◽  
National Service ◽  
Public Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Early American ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Public Research University ◽  
American Research ◽  
Scientific Identity

Modern American scientific identity has its roots in the colleges of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Using the botanical sciences as an example, this essay examines the conflicts between those who viewed scientists as cosmopolitan (or international) and those who viewed scientists as citizens (or servants) of the national state. Whereas today many American scientists claim a cosmopolitan identity, even as they decry steady declines in state aid, two centuries ago, they did just the opposite: to win public support, they quietly subsumed the ideals of cosmopolitanism within a commitment to national service, even as they deftly cultivated a new professional image rooted in a rhetoric of scientific internationalism. The construction of this new self-image was, I argue, a necessary precondition for the creation of the modern American research university—particularly the public research university—which sought to reconcile the competing ideals of scientific cosmopolitanism and citizenship.

scholarly journals OTORITAS KEILMUAN GUS IZZA SADEWA DAN MEDIA BARU (PUTRA KH. IMRON JAMIL JOMBANG)

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 167
Author(s):  
M Ulil Abshor
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
New Media ◽  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
Scientific Authority ◽  
Youtube Videos ◽  
Scientific Identity

<p><em>The </em><em>s</em><em>tudy aims to </em><em>uncovered the facts behind the scientific authority that was </em><em>showed</em><em> by Gus Izza Sadewa (the son of KH. Imron Jamil Jombang), who was only 15 years old and was able to present a scientific identity and sufism practices that was very beneficial. The author focuses on YouTube's new media as a shap</em><em>ing </em><em>of scientific authority in the cyberculture world. The author analyzes the content analysis of some YouTube videos about Gus Izza. The content provided is manifested in aspects of contextual </em><em>sufism</em><em>. According to Heidi A. Campbell, there are 4 things that influence a religion or </em><em>a text </em><em>ideolog</em><em>y</em><em>, namely hierarchy (value), structure, ideology, and text. The results obtained from several segments of the hierarchy or values formed in the self of Gus Izza, he has Sufi</em><em>sm</em><em> and mature scientific authority, which can be proven by giving explanations about monotheism, </em><em>the most important in </em><em>looking for murs</em><em>y</em><em>hd-teachers, faith, actualizing worship that </em><em>applied</em><em> in daily life. </em><em>A</em><em>ll of those have </em><em>the main</em><em> orientation in the </em><em>virtue ethics (</em><em>akhlaq al</em><em>-</em><em>karimah).</em></p>

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