mechanical engineering, with a total of 64faculty members across the departments.Study designFor this study, faculty from both the College of Education and the College of Engineering wererecruited. Faculty members who agreed to participate were asked to attend a one-houron-campus workshop on concept mapping. The purpose, as portrayed to the participants, wastwo-fold: a) participate in a study on topics faculty members from different disciplines prioritizeas part of their curriculum, and b) practice concept mapping as a pedagogical tool to be used intheir own teaching practice.The researchers received responses from 35 faculty members with interest in participating in theworkshop. Of those 35, 6 participants requested virtual access to the
the context of news oracademic readings) affect what is published and how it is discussed. 4 Class Schedule Week Activity Week 1 Introduction to module Week 1 Videos covering module material Week 1 Readings (scholarly and news articles) covering module material Week 2 Role-play pre-questions Week 2 Individual concept map Week 3 Role-play activity (moderated, semi-scripted) Week 4 Group concept map Week 4 Role-play post-questions
, the first author carried out a theoretical thematic analysis as outlined by Braun &Clarke [10] using the software NVivo 12. During first-cycle coding, she coded interviewtranscripts for instances of “exclusion,” when students mentioned feeling unsupported or isolatedin any way within the program, and instances of “persistence,” when students mentionedstrategies they used to continue the program despite the exclusionary aspects of the environment.During second-cycle coding, she grouped these exclusion and persistence codes into largerthemes by creating a thematic map using NVivo’s concept map tools. Following Braun &Clarke’s steps for thematic analysis, she grouped together related codes and named the groups asthemes. Some of these