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Cultural Impact on a Global Virtual STEM Project

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Advances in Quantitative Ethnography (ICQE 2023)

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This paper examines discourse patterns of adolescents from five countries collaborating on STEM-related projects through online videoconferencing and the impact of culture on the program. Epistemic network analysis was used to analyze cross-cultural collaboration and interactions among learners from Brazil, Cameroon, Kenya, Namibia, and the United States while participating in the International Community for Collaborative Content Creation. Guided by the transfer and adoption of universal principles theory and intergroup contact theory, the research results show evidence of cultural sensitivity as it pertains to practices, heritage, and local STEM projects in June 2017, as well as values and language in August 2020, as learners engaged in STEM-related content creation.

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The authors wish to acknowledge the generous support of the US National Science Foundation (#2109443) for support of the research that this paper presents. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and not of the National Science Foundation.

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Akumbu, R.V., Lux, K., Schulz, D., Espino, D., Hamilton, E. (2023). Cultural Impact on a Global Virtual STEM Project. In: Arastoopour Irgens, G., Knight, S. (eds) Advances in Quantitative Ethnography. ICQE 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1895. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47014-1_7

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