ERIC Number: EJ1312262
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 17
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0161-956X
EISSN: N/A
Available Date: N/A
Supporting Teacher Visioning of Justice-Oriented Engineering in the Middle Grades
Tan, Edna; Barton, Angela Calabrese; Benavides, Aerin
Peabody Journal of Education, v96 n4 p376-392 2021
There are well-documented justice-related issues in engineering education. How do teachers begin to develop a way of seeing forward in their teaching, both in how they understand their role and their hoped-for outcomes for students, in ways that bridge the goals of justice with required engineering disciplinary expectations? In this manuscript, we focus on how teachers envision teaching engineering in ways that attend to the sociopoliticaldimensions of STEM teaching and learning. Through participatory social design research, we ask: (1) How do two middle school science teachers' vision of what justice-oriented engineering for sustainable communities (EfSC) is and entails, develop across sustained professional development (PD) and classroom enactment of an EfSC curriculum? (2) What is the relationship between teachers' processes of visioning and student opportunities for consequential learning? Findings suggest that teachers' visioning of justice-oriented engineering teaching take shape as they started to see themselves as being in relationship to engineering and community, making others' experiences and their own important aspects of learning. Further, this work of visioning is filled with tension and contradiction. In learning alongside their students about how powered relationalities shape opportunities to learn, teachers had to see themselves inside the process. Implications are discussed.
Descriptors: Justice, Engineering Education, Middle School Teachers, Teaching Methods, STEM Education, Sustainable Development, Teacher Attitudes, Curriculum Development
Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Authoring Institution: N/A
Grant or Contract Numbers: 1502755
Author Affiliations: N/A

Peer reviewed
Direct link
