Generating a framework for gender and sexual diversity?inclusive STEM education

Students who identify as LGBTQ continue to report feelings of being unsafe at school because their sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression. Access a diversity (GSD)-inclusive curriculum supportive teachers may positively improve the climate for students, but these supports are often not included in STEM classrooms. One response is ensure that prepared integrate GSD-inclusive teaching into This review systematically analyzed literature on supporting affirming GSD K-12 higher education contexts. The 81 selected studies were qualitatively using inductive thematic analysis epistemic network analysis, findings showed coheres around six highly related constructs: Heteronormativity, Social Justice, Epistemic Knowledge Science Inquiry, Identity, Embodiment, language. Identifying constructs, connections among them, led generation an operational framework can inform guide teacher programs professional development develop educators' equity literacy foster bias-free, equitable, inclusive