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This chapter suggests that oral history archives can help to (re)orient science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students’ ways of knowing, inviting them to look at disciplinary knowledge through a lens of the human experience as opposed to seeing primarily, or even exclusively, through the lens of objective truths. Oral histories can elucidate for STEM students the influence of a scientist’s positionality on scientific findings, the process and not just the products of STEM discovery, and the agency one has to shape social realities.
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Wray, A. (2017). STEM Histories: Complicating Dominant (Object-Oriented) Narratives. In: Llewellyn, K., Ng-A-Fook, N. (eds) Oral History and Education. Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95019-5_7
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