Building on Students' Cultural Practices in STEM
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429486708-4/building-students-cultural-practices-stem-tia-madkins-na-ilah-nasir

The authors present two examples of leveraging cultural practices of students from non-dominant communities in STEM classrooms. They examine the context of playing dominoes among African American youth and adults and a middle school science and engineering classroom in which the teacher incorporates students' everyday communication patterns into a lesson.

Suggested Citation

Madkins, Tia. "Building on Students' Cultural Practices in STEM." Language and Cultural Practice in Communities and Schools, edited by Na'ilah Nasir, Routledge, 2019.