@inproceedings{a19e96394abe4b0082d5e8fafc47fb83,
title = "Exploring the Primacy of Cultural Strengths for Purposeful (Agri)cultural STEM Learning in a Mexican Immigrant Community",
abstract = "This study examines how the purposes and values Mexican immigrant families bring into a community garden space can serve as cultural strengths and facilitate opportunities for rich STEM learning. Taking place at a school-based community garden in the western US within the context of a long-term community-university partnership, researchers in this study engaged in qualitative ethnographic data collection with 20 gardeners and families over the course of nine months. Utilizing sociocultural perspectives, chiefly CHAT and the notion of a “third space, ” researchers analyzed semi-structured interviews, field notes of garden walks and community events, and self-documentation materials submitted by participants. Findings include (1) the identification of the concepts distraer (“to distract”) and conectar (“to connect”) as cultural strengths and the drivers of valued activity in the garden and (2) the effectiveness of these concepts in fostering families' engagement with natural phenomena and STEM practices.",
author = "Beckett, {Linnea K.} and Samuel Severance and Michelle Hernandez and Alyssa Najera and Juan Pacheco",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} ISLS.; 17th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2023 ; Conference date: 10-06-2023 Through 15-06-2023",
year = "2023",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conference, CSCL",
publisher = "International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS)",
pages = "569--576",
editor = "Paulo Blikstein and {Van Aalst}, Jan and Rita Kizito and Karen Brennan",
booktitle = "ISLS Annual Meeting 2023",
address = "United States",
}