Professional Bio

Jrène Rahm is Associate Professor at the Université de Montréal. She is interested in the study of diverse youths’ science literacy development outside of school, in afterschool and community programs, as well as museums and gardens. She approaches her work from a sociocultural historical perspective with an interest in discourse analysis and meaning making of science along with a focus on youths' positioning in and beyond science. A multisited ethnography of youths’ engagement in and with science in community programs in Montreal as well as Colorado has led to much insights into the complexity of equity issues particular to out-of-school settings in science as well as the manner such participation may add up and help youth become insiders to science and the STEM pipeline. Together with colleagues in Montreal, she currently explores transnational youths’ engagement and positioning in science and beyond, focusing on the ways their diverse cultural and social capital plays out. She has published in journals such as Cultural Studies of Science Education, Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Science Education, Afterschool Matters and is currently finalizing a book on science learning outside of school, entitled, Science in the making at the margin: A multisited ethnography of learning and becoming in and beyond out-of-school settings.

Expertise & Interest Descriptors

Multisited Videoethnography and Discourse Analysis Informal learning and informal science; science literacy development over time and across space; The study of repertoires of cultural practices Diverse urban youth; equity and access issues in field of informal learning How images of science constitute participation in science. Partnerships as a means to bridge formal and informal educational settings

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