Minneapolis, MN
August 23, 2022
June 26, 2022
June 29, 2022
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10.18260/1-2--41733
https://peer.asee.org/41733
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Sam is a 5th year doctoral candidate in the engineering education department at Virginia Tech. His dissertation focuses on using social networks to examine change in higher education through the lens of ethics. His other work examines measuring the cultural change happening at the university level as a result of the newly implemented general educaiton system at Virgin Tech through faculty interviews, student surveys, and social network analysis via Zoom calls.
Associate Proffessor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech.
Literature has shown that faculty peers within an educator’s network have the potential to influence their perceptions towards pedagogies, multidisciplinarity, and faculty development. While research has examined the influence of individual faculty on one another, less work has been focused on more holistically examining faculty networks’ influences on shaping their worldviews. We designed a study to explore how the various connections faculty make within the university may potentially 1) influence their perceptions of ethical worldviews, 2) lead to new multidisciplinary experiences for students in STEM courses. As a part of a major revision to the undergraduate education curriculum at a southeastern R1 university, a plethora of multidisciplinary minors were created. The design and implementation of these courses over the past 5 years have created numerous examples of multidisciplinary courses, for students of varying discipline and level of experience to participate. While efforts have been made to assess the individual courses that are a part of the general education reform, little effort has been made in examining how the courses and the faculty leading them have impacted the larger university network. We utilize Social Network Analysis (SNA) framework to investigate teaching-, research-, and departmental-networks of faculty who are involved with the general education curriculum. Thirty faculty from the general education program will sit down for semi-structured interviews to examine their ethical worldviews. This study uses an imbedded mixed methods approach where data will be analyzed with thematic coding and integrated into the social network data) to have a comprehensive view of faculty ethical worldviews. This is a work-in-progress, we will report the findings in the full paper.
Snyder, S., & Bairaktarova, D. (2022, August), Work-in-Progress: Examining how faculty formal and multidisciplinary networks shape ethical worldviews Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--41733
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