Conference Session

Faculty Track - Technical Session IV

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Scott Franklin, Rochester Institute of Technology; Eleanor C. Sayre, Kansas State University; Mary Bridget Kustusch, DePaul University

Tagged Topics

Faculty

own interests and grow their agency and confidence indirecting research projects. We treat this variety as an asset to be utilized and not a challenge to beovercome.In our field schools, we are also working to develop a community of practice among participants.Since most of our participants are emerging education researchers, they are still in the process offorming their professional identity, at least in regards to their identity as an education researcher.Research has shown that one’s professional identity is intimately linked to communityparticipation.[9, 10]As a theory of learning, Communities of Practice assumes that the fundamental process by whichwe learn and develop our identity is through engagement in social practice.[11