Gender inclusivity of engineering students' experiences of workplace learning : Report on analysis of motivational experiences.
Lead Institution: The University of Western Australia
Project: SD13-3416
To the detriment of Australian society and people, women in Australia remain under-represented among engineering students and even more among engineers. Engineering workplaces have features that are gender non-inclusive. Therefore efforts to improve engineering education by increasing industry engag...
| Institution(s): | University of Western Australia Curtin University University of Technology, Sydney |
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| Main Author(s): | Male, Sally Bennett, Dawn Cullity, Marguerite Figueroa, Eugenia Gardner, Anne Khan, Nazim MacNish, Cara Maynard, Nicoleta Willey, Keith |
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Office for Learning and Teaching
2015
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| Online Access: |
/resources/SD13_3416_Male_Additional report_ 2015.pdf /resources/SD13_3416_Male_Additional report_2015.doc |
| Summary: | To the detriment of Australian society and people, women in Australia remain under-represented among engineering students and even more among engineers. Engineering workplaces have features that are gender non-inclusive. Therefore efforts to improve engineering education by increasing industry engagement might further discourage female engineering students. This is a report from a project that contributed towards ensuring that industry engagement is gender inclusive. Focusing on personal interactions, the project investigated the workplace experiences of male and female engineering students from three universities, using an online survey and student interviews. The project used the framework of possible selves, in which students are motivated to achieve or avoid possible future selves (Bennett, forthcoming). A workshop to help prepare students for the workplace was developed, tested, and modelled. |
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