Theorizing can contribute to marginalized students' agency in engineering persistence.
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Secules, SD, Gupta, A, Elby, A. (2015). Theorizing can contribute to marginalized students' agency in engineering persistence.
. 122nd ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition: Making Value for Society(122nd ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition: Making Value for Society),
Secules, SD, Gupta, A, Elby, A. (2015). Theorizing can contribute to marginalized students' agency in engineering persistence.
. 122nd ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition: Making Value for Society(122nd ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition: Making Value for Society),
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.
publication date
January 1, 2015
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volume
122nd ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition: Making Value for Society
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122nd ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition: Making Value for Society