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Education & Educational Research
Karin J. Jensen, Kelly J. Cross
Summary: This study reveals that self-reported levels of stress, anxiety, and depression are high among engineering students, with higher levels for female students in stress and anxiety, and first-generation students in depression. There are correlations between self-reported mental health symptoms, engineering identity, and perceptions of inclusion, which vary by gender. Additionally, underrepresented students in engineering rate their departments as less diverse compared to their peers.
JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION
(2021)
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Computer Science, Information Systems
Razvan Gabriel Boboc, Rares-Lucian Chiriac, Csaba Antonya
Summary: This study explored the application of augmented reality (AR) in improving the learning of Mechanisms. The results showed promising didactic potential of the AR application, with positive attitudes and high intention to use among students.
Review
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Denise Wilson, Jennifer VanAntwerp
Summary: Unmet or thwarted belonging needs have been identified in women in engineering, with various challenges they face in the field linked to deficits in belonging. Intersectional factors across race and ethnicity also make it harder for women to belong.
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Marta Pena, Elisabet Mas de Les Valls
Summary: This work investigates the inclusion of gender mainstreaming in engineering teaching and research, an area known for its low proportion of female students. The research results in a guide of recommendations for teaching and research staff to incorporate gender equality in engineering. The study serves as a crucial tool for further understanding and addressing gender bias in engineering.
ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
(2023)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Pedro N. Oblea, Nicole Q. Bathan, Christyn A. Gaa, Michael B. Lustik, Todd M. Tartavoulle, Elizabeth D. Nguyen-Wu, Leilani A. Siaki
Summary: This study evaluates the knowledge and skill outcomes of an LGBTQ cultural sensitivity training program and finds significant improvements in participants' knowledge and skills. It is one of the few studies exploring LGBTQ sensitivity training in civilian and military settings. Further research and development of similar educational programs can contribute to improved care and readiness for all servicemembers.
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Stephanie M. Hernandez, Carolyn T. Halpern, Kerith J. Conron
Summary: This study found that gender non-conforming sexual minorities have lower socioeconomic status compared to gender conforming heterosexuals. These findings have important implications for understanding health disparities between sexual minorities and heterosexual counterparts.
JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH
(2023)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Wendy Xiomara Chavarria-Garza, Ayax Santos-Guevara, Jose Ruben Morones-Ibarra, Osvaldo Aquines-Gutierrez
Summary: In sustainable education, analyzing student diversity is crucial for implementing inclusive education strategies. This study found significant effects of gender and engineering program factors on the development of multiple intelligences, highlighting the importance of tailored approaches.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Mellissa Hardtke, Leila Khanjaninejad, Candace Lang, Noushin Nasiri
Summary: Despite efforts to reduce gender inequality in STEM, engineering remains one of the least equitable fields in Australian universities. There is a lack of research in understanding the factors contributing to Australian women students' participation in engineering. To address this, a qualitative study was conducted with women undergraduate students at Macquarie University. Findings indicate that gendered perceptions and stereotypes negatively impact women students' experiences and persistence in engineering, creating barriers both within the university and in future workplace environments.
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Environmental Sciences
Liang Wang, Xiangyu Zhou, Wei Wu, Aihua Chen
Summary: Influenced by gendered masculine culture, female engineering students are facing increasing mental health issues. This study proposes and verifies a moderating model based on social identity theory, exploring the effects of gender and engineering identity on the mental health distress of female engineering students. The findings show that a percentage of female engineering students reported moderate to extremely severe stress, anxiety, and depression. The study reveals a significantly positive relationship between the tension of interpersonal relationships and the mental health distress of female engineering students, with gender identity enhancing this relationship and engineering identity weakening it. These findings provide empirical evidence for addressing mental health problems among engineering students by considering social identity and professional role identity.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Nursing
Ilknur Dolu, Mahir Can Gokce, Ersin Karakus, Osman Alperen Geldi, Tolga Gazi
Summary: This study aimed to determine the impact of male nursing students' voluntary activities on their image in society. The findings revealed that these activities not only enhanced the visibility of nursing in society but also improved the perception of male nurses in society.
INTERNATIONAL NURSING REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Education, Scientific Disciplines
Kai Lo Andersson, Catharina Landstrom
Summary: Despite efforts made over the years, gender equality still remains a challenge in many university-level STEM institutions. This is primarily attributed to disciplinary and institutional cultures, particularly the professional identity of the 'sole engineering genius'. This identity hinders measures promoting gender equality and is not limited to a local or national scale, but likely a transnational factor affecting STEM institutions' strategies.
ENGINEERING STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Carme Grimalt-Alvaro, Digna Couso, Ester Boixadera-Planas, Spela Godec
Summary: This study surveyed 1004 students aged 12-16 from high schools in and around Barcelona, Spain, and conducted hierarchical cluster analysis to characterize six different STEM self-identity profiles, with a focus on two clusters (C1 and C2) exhibiting positive STEM identity. Boys were more inclined towards technology and engineering (C1), while girls were more inclined towards science (C2). The study suggests that students' self-identification as STEM people may be influenced by their preferences and aspirations in different STEM areas.
JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN SCIENCE TEACHING
(2022)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Mary Luz Mouronte-Lopez, Arturo Garcia, Susana Bautista, Carmen Cortes
Summary: The study found that gender has an impact on students' interest in engineering and technology, and girls' interest can be increased through group activities. Additionally, age only influences the desire of students to repeat the experience.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN EDUCATION
(2021)
Article
Communication
Craig O. Stewart
Summary: Research shows that undergraduate engineering students emphasize personal attributes and relationships with peers in communication, while potential identity gaps that may hinder the formation of STEM identity were also observed in the data. Communication plays a crucial role in understanding students' development and expression of STEM identities.
JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Mary Elizabeth Lockhart, Karen Rambo-Hernandez, Rebecca Atadero
Summary: Engineering students' inclusive professional engineering identities (IPEIs) have the potential to change over time, with intervention experiences playing a significant role in this process. Factors such as gender and students' levels of engineering identity also contribute to the development of IPEIs. Investigating these factors and further enhancing the positive cultivation of students' IPEIs is crucial for promoting diversity within engineering and fostering a more inclusive engineering culture.
JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Eva Silfver, Allison J. Gonsalves, Anna T. Danilesson, Maria Berge
Summary: This article explores how female university students negotiate their gender identities to become intelligible as engineering students and engineers within the influence of Swedish gender equality discourse. Despite gender equality being used as a resource in their performances, it also poses a dilemma by limiting the possibilities for gender performances to go beyond old patterns. Nevertheless, the article demonstrates three unique ways of negotiating gender and other social categories in different situations connected to university learning and internships.
GENDER AND EDUCATION
(2022)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Hannele Junkala, Maria Berge, Eva Silfver
Summary: Shortcomings in sex and relationship education related to norms and LGBTQIA perspectives have been reported in Sweden. A critical study of SRE content in Swedish biology textbooks reveals that there are limitations in terms of representation, particularly in terms of queer, intersex, asexual, and crip/disability perspectives. To promote equality and diversity, there is a need to rethink the SRE content in Swedish biology textbooks.
SEX EDUCATION-SEXUALITY SOCIETY AND LEARNING
(2022)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Sofie Kobayashi, Maria Berge
Summary: This study explores how norms of science are highlighted through laughter in life science doctoral supervision. The findings reveal the importance of scientific norms in the socialization process of PhD students and the critical role supervisors play in teaching and navigating these norms. The balance between validity and feasibility, quality and quantity, as well as the significance of skepticism in intellectual conversation, are key aspects of scientific norms emphasized in the study.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENCE EDUCATION
(2022)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Anna T. Danielsson, Anders Johansson, Anne-Sofie Nystrom, Allison J. Gonsalves
Summary: The purpose of this manuscript is to explore how students perceive that online practices have enabled their participation in university physics programmes. In order to conceptualise how students bridge their science participation across physical and online spaces, we make use of the learning ecology perspective. Data has been generated through semi-structured interviews guided by a timeline, constructed in collaboration between the interviewer and the interviewee. The findings focus on four students who in various ways all have struggled to access science learning resources and found ways to utilise online spaces as a complement to their physical learning ecologies. In the manuscript, we show how online practices have contributed to the students' learning ecologies, e.g. in terms of building networks and functioning as learning support, and how resources acquired through online science practices have both use and exchange value in the wider science community. Furthermore, we argue that online spaces have the potential to offer opportunities for participation and network building for students who do not have access to science activities and science people in their everyday surroundings.
RESEARCH IN SCIENCE EDUCATION
(2023)
Review
Cultural Studies
Anna T. Danielsson, Heather King, Spela Godec, Anne-Sofie Nystrom
Summary: This manuscript reviews the common methodological approaches used by science education researchers to study learner identities. Three distinct methodological approaches were identified: macro-studies within a psychological tradition, macro-studies within a sociological tradition, and micro-studies within an interpretive tradition. The review analyzed 198 papers published between 1998 and 2018, with the majority classified as micro-studies within an interpretive tradition. The implications of methodological choices for advancing understanding and addressing ambiguities in the field are discussed.
CULTURAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE EDUCATION
(2023)
Article
Education, Scientific Disciplines
Andreas Ottemo, Maria Berge, Heather Mendick, Eva Silfver
Summary: This article examines the tension between passion for technology and the masculinization of engineering in a voluntarily-organized makerspace at a Swedish university of technology. The study reveals that the passionate pursuit of technology restricts its socialization and the diversification of engineering education.
ENGINEERING STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Johanna Larsson, Anna T. Danielsson
Summary: This paper explores the issue of underrepresentation of women in physics education and proposes that physics teachers play a crucial role in solving this problem. Through interviews with 17 trainee physics students, it is found that female students successfully negotiate their identity as learners of physics, while also embracing the stereotypes associated with physics nerdiness, masculinity, and intelligence. This study highlights the importance of trainee physics teachers in creating inclusive learning environments for their students.
PHYSICAL REVIEW PHYSICS EDUCATION RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Andreas Ottemo, Allison J. Gonsalves, Anna T. Danielsson
Summary: Physics and computer-related disciplines are male dominated in Western higher education, reflecting a privileging of mind and rationality. However, legitimacy in these fields is also tightly connected to embodiment, contributing to the masculinisation of these disciplines.
GENDER AND EDUCATION
(2021)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Anna T. Danielsson, Susanne Engstrom, Per Norstrom, Kristina Andersson
RESEARCH IN SCIENCE EDUCATION
(2021)
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Anna T. Danielsson, Maria Berge
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF QUALITATIVE METHODS
(2020)
Article
Cultural Studies
Allison J. Gonsalves
CULTURAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE EDUCATION
(2020)
Article
Cultural Studies
Kristina Andersson, Annica Gullberg, Anna T. Danielsson, Kathryn Scantlebury, Anita Hussenius
CULTURAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE EDUCATION
(2020)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Andreas Ottemo, Maria Berge, Eva Silfver
Article
Education & Educational Research
Maria Berge, Anna Danielsson, Malena Lidar
RESEARCH IN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATION
(2020)