Grohs, JR;
Gillen, AL;
Matusovich, HM;
Kirk, GR;
Lesko, HL;
Brantley, J;
Carrico, C;
(2020)
Building Community Capacity for Integrating Engineering in Rural Middle School Science Classrooms.
Journal of STEM Outreach
, 3
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Abstract
: Broadening participation in engineering is an important national priority and has led to increasing demands for engineering content to be integrated into traditional K-12 curriculum. However, expecting teachers to incorporate engineering into their classrooms without additional training or resources is unreasonable. Partnering teachers with industry partners is one promising way to prioritize integrated science and engineering content while also introducing youth to possible career paths. In this programmatic article, we introduce the Partnering with Educators and Engineers in Rural Schools (PEERS) project that focuses on the collaborative design, implementation, and study of recurrent hands-on engineering activities with middle school youth in three rural communities in or near Appalachia. We discuss the curricular priorities of the program as well as preliminary findings on both student-focused and capacity-building metrics across the partnerships. Key discussion points include (1) a need to distill goals for engineering outreach by wrestling with what success might really look like for middle-school youth engagement with engineering and (2) cultivating community capacity to better support education systems and the simultaneous potential for and challenges of collaborating to build such infrastructure.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Building Community Capacity for Integrating Engineering in Rural Middle School Science Classrooms |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.jstemoutreach.org/article/11722-buildi... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | rural education, middle school science, collaboration, industry partnerships, engineering outreach |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Civil, Environ and Geomatic Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10090055 |
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