Positionality practices and dimensions of impact on equity research: A collaborative inquiry and call to the community

S Secules, C McCall, JA Mejia, C Beebe… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background Many engineering education researchers acknowledge that their positionality
impacts their research. Practices for reporting positionality vary widely and rarely incorporate …

Critical theoretical frameworks in engineering education: An anti-deficit and liberative approach

JA Mejia, RA Revelo, I Villanueva, J Mejia - Education Sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
The field of engineering education has adapted different theoretical frameworks from a wide
range of disciplines to explore issues of education, diversity, and inclusion among others …

[HTML][HTML] An integrated approach to energy education in engineering

GD Hoople, DA Chen, SM Lord, LA Gelles, F Bilow… - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
What do engineering students in 2020 need to know about energy to be successful in the
workplace and contribute to addressing society's issues related to energy? Beginning with …

Legitimized tongues: Breaking the traditions of silence in mainstream engineering education and research

JA Mejia, IV Alarcón, J Mejia… - Journal of Women and …, 2022 - dl.begellhouse.com
The dominant discourse in engineering education has legitimized certain forms of
knowledge while highlighting the perceived" inadequacies" of students of color through …

Old problem, new perspectives: Applying Anzalduán concepts to underrepresentation in STEM

EH McWhirter, RG Cinamon - Journal of Career …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Women and members of many ethnic minority groups continue to be significantly
underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education …

Creating a culture of servingness for Latinx engineering students in Hispanic‐serving community colleges

SL Rodriguez, B Berhane - New Directions for Community …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This paper will describe the promise Hispanic‐serving Community Colleges (HSCCs) have
for creating a culture of servingness, including curricular and co‐curricular supports, transfer …

College and career ready and critically conscious: Asset-building with Latinx immigrant youth

EH McWhirter, C Cendejas, M Fleming… - Journal of Career …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
A growing body of evidence supports critical consciousness as a developmental asset for
young people, including its benefits for educational and vocational outcomes. National …

Learning from antiracist theories to reframe engineering education research on race

GA Dietz, EP Douglas, ED McCray… - Journal of Women …, 2022 - dl.begellhouse.com
In this paper, we describe multiple theories that focus on the production and reproduction of
demographic marginalization and that reject deficit paradigms. These theories have …

Nepantla aquí, Nepantla allá: The Borderlands of identity from Mexican-origin women in STEM

NE Garza, SL Rodriguez… - Journal of Hispanic …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The study explored how Mexican-origin women in STEM utilized Anzaldua's borderlands of
identity and Conocimientos to successfully navigate between Mexican-origin cultures and …

Building and Maintaining an Engineering Identity: How Engineering Students Navigate Community College Stigma Prior to Transfer

SL Rodriguez, ML Espino… - … College Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This research brief outlines a phenomenological study which sought to understand how
community college students made sense of their engineering identity as well as explore how …