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Engineering Equity

A Critical Pedagogical Approach to Language and Curriculum Change for African American Males in STEM

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Human Rights in Language and STEM Education

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Skinner (2008) argued that a community’s health can be gauged by how well black men and boys are doing within it. Similarly, Noguera (2008) suggested that black males can be viewed as canaries in a mineshaft in that they reflect and react to the highest levels of toxicity in U.S. society. “With respect to health, education, employment, income, and overall well-being,” Noguera noted, “all of the most reliable data consistently indicate that black males constitute a segment of the population that is distinguished by hardships, disadvantages, and vulnerability (2006, p. 11).

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  1. Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley, USA

    Jabari Mahiri

  2. Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley, USA

    Jeremiah Sims

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Mahiri, J., Sims, J. (2016). Engineering Equity. In: Babaci-Wilhite, Z. (eds) Human Rights in Language and STEM Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-405-3_4

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