Theorizing can contribute to marginalized students' agency in engineering persistence. Conference

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),

cited authors

  • Secules, SD; Gupta, A; Elby, A

authors

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.

publication date

  • January 1, 2015

volume

  • 122nd ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition: Making Value for Society

issue

  • 122nd ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition: Making Value for Society