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Theorizing can contribute to marginalized students' agency in engineering persistence.
- Source :
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Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition . 2015, p1-18. 18p. - Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Within research on retention and persistence in STEM, the concept of student agency is typically treated as a personal characteristic or as an element of coping and navigational strategies. The act of theorizing about one's own experiences and persistence is under-explored as a source of taking agency. Through interviews with a woman in the first year of an undergraduate engineering major, we examine the role that theorizing about engineering culture and her own experiences plays in her constructing a narrative of persistence that counters the prominent perceived narratives marginalizing her position in engineering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 21535868
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
- Publication Type :
- Conference
- Accession number :
- 116026344