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Teaching the Disinherited: Embedding Pro- Blackness in Engineering Pedagogy

  • Open or CloseJames Holly*

    Assistant Professor, Urban STEM Education, Wayne State University, USA

    *Corresponding author: James Holly, Assistant Professor, Urban STEM Education, Wayne State University, USA

Submission: April 29, 2021; Published: May 3, 2021

DOI: 10.31031/AES.2021.02.000531


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“It appears that my worst fears have been realized: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed” [1]. As the field of Engineering Education (ENE) continues to establish its own disciplinary identity, Black people continue our campaign for full recognition of our dignity in both engineering education and practice. Scholars engaged in engineering education research have long debated whether the focus within ENE should be on modifying teaching practices or studying how students learn [2]. Simultaneously, the importance of racially/ethnically diversifying engineering remains a prominent talking point even as efforts to do so have minimal success [3,4].

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