Understanding the science experiences of successful women of color: Science identity as an analytic lens
Understanding the science experiences of successful women of color: Science identity as an analytic lens
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DOI：
10.1002/tea.20237
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发表时间：
2007-10-01
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Johnson, Angela
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作者：
Carlone, Heidi B.;Johnson, Angela
在这项研究中，我们开发了一个科学认同模型，以理解15名成功的有色人种女性在本科和研究生学习科学以及进入科学相关职业的过程中的科学经历。在我们看来，科学身份既解释了女性如何使科学经验具有意义，也说明了社会如何构建可能的意义。主要数据包括学生在本科职业生涯中的民族志访谈，6年后的后续访谈，以及持续的成员检查。我们的结果强调了在三种科学身份轨迹中，其他人对女性的认可的重要性：研究型科学家、利他主义科学家和被扰乱的科学家。具有科研科学家身份的女性对科学充满热情，认可自己，并被理科教师认可为科学人。具有利他主义科学家身份的女性将科学视为利他主义的载体，并创造了“科学”、“他人认可”和“科学中的有色人种女性”等创新含义。科学家身份被打乱的女性寻求有意义的科学他人的认可，但往往得不到认可。尽管他们最终取得了成功，但他们的轨迹更加困难，部分原因是他们争取承认的努力被性别、种族和种族因素的相互作用打断了。本研究澄清了科学认同的理论概念，促进了对招募和保留努力的重新思考，并阐明了有色人种女性体验科学文化、赋予科学文化意义和协商科学文化的各种方式。(C)2007年威利期刊公司。
In this study, we develop a model of science identity to make sense of the science experiences of 15 successful women of color over the course of their undergraduate and graduate studies in science and into science-related careers. In our view, science identity accounts both for how women make meaning of science experiences and how society structures possible meanings. Primary data included ethnographic interviews during students' undergraduate careers, follow-up interviews 6 years later, and ongoing member-checking. Our results highlight the importance of recognition by others for women in the three science identity trajectories: research scientist; altruistic scientist; and disrupted scientist. The women with research scientist identities were passionate about science and recognized themselves and were recognized by science faculty as science people. The women with altruistic scientist identities regarded science as a vehicle for altruism and created innovative meanings of "science," "recognition by others," and "woman of color in science." The women with disrupted scientist identities sought, but did not often receive, recognition by meaningful scientific others. Although they were ultimately successful, their trajectories were more difficult because, in part, their bids for recognition were disrupted by the interaction with gendered, ethnic, and racial factors. This study clarifies theoretical conceptions of science identity, promotes a rethinking of recruitment and retention efforts, and illuminates various ways women of color experience, make meaning of, and negotiate the culture of science. (C) 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.