Letourneau, S., & Culp, K., & Bennett, D. (2022, August), Designing engineering activities that use narratives to evoke empathy and support girls’ engagement: A guide for practitioners (Resource exchange)  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--40805

\bibitem{asee_peer_40805}
  Letourneau, S., \& Culp, K., \& Bennett, D. (2022, August), \emph{Designing engineering activities that use narratives to evoke empathy and support girls’ engagement: A guide for practitioners (Resource exchange)}
  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN.
  10.18260/1-2--40805

Susan Letourneau, Katherine Culp, and Dorothy Bennett.  "Designing engineering activities that use narratives to evoke empathy and support girls’ engagement: A guide for practitioners (Resource exchange)".  2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August.  ASEE Conferences, 2022.  https://peer.asee.org/40805 Internet.  02 May, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_40805}
  Susan Letourneau, Katherine Culp, and Dorothy Bennett.
  "Designing engineering activities that use narratives to evoke empathy and support girls’ engagement: A guide for practitioners (Resource exchange)".
  \emph{2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2022.
  https://peer.asee.org/40805 Internet.  02 May, 2024

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AB  - This resource exchange shares guidelines for using narrative elements to evoke empathy and support engineering design practices among girls ages 7-14. Through a three-year design-based research project, a team of researchers, activity developers, and educators developed strategies for adding elements of narrative (such as characters, settings, and narrative problem frames) to traditional engineering challenges in order to prompt learners to consider who they are designing for and why. This approach draws on prior research that describes empathy as integral to engineering practices (Walther et al., 2017), and studies that advocate for emphasizing the social dimensions of engineering to invite a wider range of identities into the field (Capobianco & Yu, 2014). By iteratively testing six narrative-based engineering activities and examining the impact on girls’ engagement, the team developed a guidebook to support educators and activity developers in reframing engineering activities in more inclusive and socially relevant ways. The practitioner guidebook includes: 1) design principles and facilitation tips for integrating narrative elements into hands-on engineering activities based on our findings, 2) six activity case studies illustrating how narrative elements were added to traditional engineering challenges in a range of ways, and 3) indicators of empathy and engineering practices that we observed in our research. Learning goals for narrative-based engineering activities include: engagement with the narratives (by referencing or elaborating on them), expressions of empathy (including affective responses, cognitive perspective-taking, and prosocial responses), and engagement in engineering design practices (including problem scoping, ideation, testing, and iteration). Design principles, facilitation tips, and indicators of success included in the guide are intended to be adaptable across a range of formal and informal engineering activities.
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