A CULTURAL "JOURNEY": AMERICAN INDIAN & ALASKA NATIVE 11TH AND 12TH GRADE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS EXPERIENCE THE WORLD OF RESEARCH

The American Indian Research & Education Center, (AIREC) “Journey” program begins its' eighth year as one of four U.S. National Institutes of Health, (NIH) High School Coordinating Centers for the ShortTerm Education Program for Underrepresented Persons (STEP-UP). AIREC specifically recruits and mentors American Indian (AI) Alaska Native (AN) 11th & 12th grade students across the nation in an effort to increase research exposure and elevate future biomedical interest at the post-secondary level. "Journey" accomplishes this through mentored research experiences to the selected AI/AN high school students who are at least 16 years old and in the 11th or 12th grades at the time of application. STEPUP includes the provision of hands-on experiences which may entail: biomedical, social science, behavioral, and clinical research venues. The article illustrates the ability to reflect and create a dual integrative process for teaching and learning across American Indian and Alaska Native cultures. In addition, how biocognition mirrors individual culture changes as life experiences continue to provide a lens in which students view the world; what we see... might not be their reality.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  EDULEARN19 Proceedings

• Publication date

  2019-07-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Education, History

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.21125/EDULEARN.2019.0176
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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