Creating Audio Narratives of Engineering Students’ Figured Worlds as a Mechanism for Enabling Responsive Education (Poster 49)

• In Event: Friday Poster Session 7:45 am
  In Poster Session: Learning Sciences SIG Poster Session 1: STEM Learning, Motivation, Culture, and Design-Based Research

Abstract

This paper highlights the theoretical and methodological foundations of an ongoing project which aims to enhance engineering faculty empathy for and understanding of students. We conceive of the engineering classroom as a figured world and the agency that students have in narrating their own experience and oppression. In this novel qualitative methodology, we construct narratives that represent the student undergraduate experience and re-record them with student actors. In an interactive poster session we will highlight our audio student narratives through a representation of students as cartoon avatars and QR codes to listen directly. Finally, we discuss the ways patterns in the figured worlds of engineering and implications for qualitative researchers, faculty developers, and those invested in broadening participation in engineering.

Authors

• Stephen D. Secules, University of New Mexico

• Cassandra McCall, Utah State University

• Maimuna Begum Kali, Florida International University

• Gabriel Van Dyke, Utah State University

• Nivedita Kumar, Florida International University