Michael Lachney
Biographic Data
| ID | 2822796 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Lachney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Lachney |
| SIGNATURE | LACHNEY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3310-8707 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Diving into the role
While computer science is widely recognized as crucial for all U.S. high school students, challenges persist for teachers’ pedagogical, content, and culturally responsive-sustaining education. In this paper, we explore how a co-teaching model with an experienced CS instructor shaped three novice CS teachers’ knowledge while implementing Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles courses. Using a multi-case study methodology, we analyzed semi-…
Sowing equity
This proof-of-concept study tests the feasibility that moral education can contribute to the design of learning environments for underrepresented children of colour in US science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education. Descriptive studies demonstrate how some people of colour in STEM fields value connecting their work to equity, culture and community: i.e., the equity ethic . Combining literature on the equity ethic with litera…
Sparring with technology
Irreplicability in methodology
The claim that research should prioritize qualities of replicability is foundational to scientific knowledge production. At the same time, replication is not an algorithm but instead based on a disciplinary community’s values and norms. With this understanding, we reflect on how varying degrees of replicability and irreplicability are always co-constituted in research projects through historically situated relationships between humans, methods, a…
Introduction to Special Section on Race and Racism in Educational Technology
Race-Positive Career and Technical Education
PH empowered
Culturally responsive computing (CRC) frames the localized knowledges and practices of Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities as assets for working toward racial justice in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). A key part of CRC is the role that local communities play in designing and/or implementing curricula and technologies. Yet, there is a dearth of research on collaborating with local knowledge experts and what they thi…
Culturally Responsive Debugging
Decolonizing posthumanism
This paper describes a decolonial perspective on material agency in the context of STEM education and application. Using the framework of generative STEM, we engaged in case studies with African, African American, South American, and Native American educational communities. This research shows that understanding material agency based on Indigenous knowledge systems can open a rich source of research and education content. Using a suite of simulat…
Automation for the artisanal economy
Historicizing making and doing
The field of science and technology studies (STS) has recently formalized a performative category of scholarship called ‘making and doing’. Making and doing recognizes engaged and reflexive practices that help STS claims and ideas travel between social worlds by means other than academic publications and presentations. At this time, little attention has been paid to the historical conditions and epistemologies that helped to construct this catego…
The Forgotten Scholar
The postdoctoral pathway to the professoriate is an important source of future faculty talent. This paper focuses on underrepresented minority (URM) postdocs and the challenges they face as they prepare for tenure track positions in the academy. To date, much of the research on URM success in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields has focused on student interest in STEM fields and STEM curricula, both at the K-12 and unde…
The Laboratorization of Schools
In twenty-first century US education, laboratory metaphors are used to frame school governance and classroom practices. To explore how non-laboratory and non-traditional laboratory settings are framed as sites for experimentation, science and technology studies (STS) has two parallel trajectories for conceptualizing the laboratorization of society: the literal implantation of laboratories into physical locations and the metaphorical application t…
Local Classrooms, Global Technologies
Discussions of ethics within in-service teacher education tend to focus on microethical concerns (e.g., discipline) that deal with decision making at interpersonal levels. Issues concerning educational technology are no exception. Yet, as teachers choose and are expected to integrate technological devices (e.g., laptops) and sociotechnical systems (e.g., learning management systems) into pedagogical practices, their classrooms and schools may bec…
A mathematical tool kit for generative justice
Como a matemática pode melhor contribuir para a justiça social e a sustentabilidade? A justiça distributiva aborda a pobreza e os problemas relacionados de cima para baixo: movendo o valor extraído da propriedade privada para a propriedade estatal. Mas, a história do socialismo burocrático, da poluição na URSS à escassez de alimentos na Venezuela, mostra tantos problemas quanto o capitalismo. A justiça generativa, ao contrário, funciona de baixo …
Culturally responsive computing as brokerage
Bridging schools and communities has been a goal, if not hurdle, for reformers who aim to improve the education of low-income and underrepresented students from the bottom-up. Strategies to create these connections are often characterized as 'brokerage', where individuals or organizations bridge two or more social worlds. This paper details the design and implementation of educational technologies that support the brokering of school-community co…
Culturally responsive computing as brokerage
Bridging schools and communities has been a goal, if not hurdle, for reformers who aim to improve the education of low-income and underrepresented students from the bottom-up. Strategies to create these connections are often characterized as 'brokerage', where individuals or organizations bridge two or more social worlds. This paper details the design and implementation of educational technologies that support the brokering of school-community co…
The Forgotten Scholar
The postdoctoral pathway to the professoriate is an important source of future faculty talent. This paper focuses on underrepresented minority (URM) postdocs and the challenges they face as they prepare for tenure track positions in the academy. To date, much of the research on URM success in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields has focused on student interest in STEM fields and STEM curricula, both at the K-12 and unde…
Introduction to Special Section on Race and Racism in Educational Technology
The Laboratorization of Schools
In twenty-first century US education, laboratory metaphors are used to frame school governance and classroom practices. To explore how non-laboratory and non-traditional laboratory settings are framed as sites for experimentation, science and technology studies (STS) has two parallel trajectories for conceptualizing the laboratorization of society: the literal implantation of laboratories into physical locations and the metaphorical application t…
Culturally responsive computing as brokerage
Bridging schools and communities has been a goal, if not hurdle, for reformers who aim to improve the education of low-income and underrepresented students from the bottom-up. Strategies to create these connections are often characterized as 'brokerage', where individuals or organizations bridge two or more social worlds. This paper details the design and implementation of educational technologies that support the brokering of school-community co…
A mathematical tool kit for generative justice
Como a matemática pode melhor contribuir para a justiça social e a sustentabilidade? A justiça distributiva aborda a pobreza e os problemas relacionados de cima para baixo: movendo o valor extraído da propriedade privada para a propriedade estatal. Mas, a história do socialismo burocrático, da poluição na URSS à escassez de alimentos na Venezuela, mostra tantos problemas quanto o capitalismo. A justiça generativa, ao contrário, funciona de baixo …
Local Classrooms, Global Technologies
Discussions of ethics within in-service teacher education tend to focus on microethical concerns (e.g., discipline) that deal with decision making at interpersonal levels. Issues concerning educational technology are no exception. Yet, as teachers choose and are expected to integrate technological devices (e.g., laptops) and sociotechnical systems (e.g., learning management systems) into pedagogical practices, their classrooms and schools may bec…
The Laboratorization of Schools
In twenty-first century US education, laboratory metaphors are used to frame school governance and classroom practices. To explore how non-laboratory and non-traditional laboratory settings are framed as sites for experimentation, science and technology studies (STS) has two parallel trajectories for conceptualizing the laboratorization of society: the literal implantation of laboratories into physical locations and the metaphorical application t…
Decolonizing posthumanism
This paper describes a decolonial perspective on material agency in the context of STEM education and application. Using the framework of generative STEM, we engaged in case studies with African, African American, South American, and Native American educational communities. This research shows that understanding material agency based on Indigenous knowledge systems can open a rich source of research and education content. Using a suite of simulat…
Automation for the artisanal economy
Historicizing making and doing
The field of science and technology studies (STS) has recently formalized a performative category of scholarship called ‘making and doing’. Making and doing recognizes engaged and reflexive practices that help STS claims and ideas travel between social worlds by means other than academic publications and presentations. At this time, little attention has been paid to the historical conditions and epistemologies that helped to construct this catego…
The Forgotten Scholar
The postdoctoral pathway to the professoriate is an important source of future faculty talent. This paper focuses on underrepresented minority (URM) postdocs and the challenges they face as they prepare for tenure track positions in the academy. To date, much of the research on URM success in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields has focused on student interest in STEM fields and STEM curricula, both at the K-12 and unde…
PH empowered
Culturally responsive computing (CRC) frames the localized knowledges and practices of Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities as assets for working toward racial justice in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). A key part of CRC is the role that local communities play in designing and/or implementing curricula and technologies. Yet, there is a dearth of research on collaborating with local knowledge experts and what they thi…
Culturally Responsive Debugging
Race-Positive Career and Technical Education
Irreplicability in methodology
The claim that research should prioritize qualities of replicability is foundational to scientific knowledge production. At the same time, replication is not an algorithm but instead based on a disciplinary community’s values and norms. With this understanding, we reflect on how varying degrees of replicability and irreplicability are always co-constituted in research projects through historically situated relationships between humans, methods, a…
Introduction to Special Section on Race and Racism in Educational Technology
Sparring with technology
Diving into the role
While computer science is widely recognized as crucial for all U.S. high school students, challenges persist for teachers’ pedagogical, content, and culturally responsive-sustaining education. In this paper, we explore how a co-teaching model with an experienced CS instructor shaped three novice CS teachers’ knowledge while implementing Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles courses. Using a multi-case study methodology, we analyzed semi-…
Sowing equity
This proof-of-concept study tests the feasibility that moral education can contribute to the design of learning environments for underrepresented children of colour in US science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education. Descriptive studies demonstrate how some people of colour in STEM fields value connecting their work to equity, culture and community: i.e., the equity ethic . Combining literature on the equity ethic with litera…
Sociology (10 works) · Pedagogy (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Teaching and Learning Programming (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Career Development and Diversity (3 works)