Toward Pedagogical Models of Recognition of Latinx Workers' Funds of Knowledge in Engineering (Poster 10)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Thirteen
  In Poster Session: Exploring Topics in Computing and Engineering Education

Abstract

Due to systemic economic inequality, millions of Latinx participate in the waged labor workforce to help their families make ends meet. Although Latinx youth often develop deep engineering expertise while working, this expertise goes under-recognized by educational systems, which benefit from this invisible labor while simultaneously failing to adequately acknowledge it. To counter this trend of under-recognition of Latinx workers, this social design experiment describes the principles underpinning a pedagogical approach for engineering education grounded in principles of educational recognition for Latinx workers. Analyses of observations, interviews, and youth artifacts indicate that recognition, connection, transformation, and mobilization constitute a pedagogical approach that can foster self-recognition among working Latinx youth as people who already have done, and can do, engineering.

Authors

• Amy A. Wilson-Lopez, Utah State University
  Presenting Author

• Christina Hartman, Utah State University
  Presenting Author

• Camila Castro, Utah State University
  Presenting Author

• Alfonso Torres Rua, Utah State University
  Non-Presenting Author

• Andrea Perez, Utah State University
  Non-Presenting Author

• Leah Davis, Utah State University
  Non-Presenting Author