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While some Indigenous individuals have achieved “success” in STEM careers, persistent questions from many Indigenous scholars and communities about epistemic dominance at universities remain. Going beyond student achievement, this essay regards the centering of local Indigenous place based knowledge as a paradigm shifting move for universities. Thinking into places is more than an equity move to include Indigenous minds in university spaces, it is an undertaking to actually advance and transform STEM fields and all university disciplines.
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Forum Paper This essay addresses issues raised in Janet Page-Reeve et al.’s paper entitled: Wayfinding as a concept for understanding success among Native Americans in STEM: “learning how to map through life”. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-017-9849-6.
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Marker, M. Indigenous STEM success stories as disquieting decolonization: thoughts on new times and, old thoughts about place-ness. Cult Stud of Sci Educ 14, 199–204 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-018-9873-1
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