Abstract
Abstract Project RESET engaged resettled Chin refugee teens in critical STEM literacy practices in a community-based afterschool STEM enrichment program in the United States. Over the course of nine months, the participants multimodally and multilinguistically communicated their learning about weather, climate, and climate change, while also developing English proficiency. In this paper, we define critical STEM literacy drawing on current scholarship on critical science literacy and interdisciplinary STEM learning. We then present our four design principles of the learning environment for supporting critical STEM literacy and English learning and share examples from the program that demonstrate how the principles were enacted to engage youth. Drawing on our learning in this work, we will discuss implications for science educators who work with displaced or resettled youth in Asia and the Pacific regions that provide new homes for many displaced children and teens.
Highlights
Every year, thousands of people migrate between countries to flee conflict or persecution
In 2019, there were more than 26.0 million refugees around the globe, mostly originating from Syria, Afghanistan, South Sudan, Myanmar, and Somalia (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees [UNHCR], 2019a)
The highest populations of refugees in Asia come from Afghanistan and Myanmar
Summary
Thousands of people migrate between countries to flee conflict or persecution. More than 85% of these Afghan and Myanmar refugees live in neighboring countries, such as Pakistan and Iran for Afghans, and Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Thailand for Burmese (UNHCR, 2018–2019) Half of these refugees around the world are school-aged children and adolescents under the age of 18. ASIA-PACIFIC SCIENCE EDUDCowAnTloIaOdeNd f6rom(2B0ril2l.c0o)m1311/092–/230241512:39:41PM via free access have to learn new language(s), cultural practices, and school norms while learning new academic content. They often encounter mental health issues due to traumatic experiences in their home country or migration processes. We first briefly introduce the participants of Project RESET focusing on the modern history of British colonization and interethnic conflicts
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