SEFI@work: Reflexivity and Positionality statements

SEFI@Work: Reflexivity and Positionality statements – examining the impact of our social identities in engineering education research Recorded: 6 February 2023 Engineering education researchers; social identities – their backgrounds, world views, experiences, and biases – have an impact on their research: research topic, epistemology, ontology, methodology, relation to participants, and communication (Secules et al., 2021). This is particularly important in engineering education research that integrates critical theoretical frameworks (Mejia, Revelo, Villanueva, & Mejia, 2018). Moreover, many research studies on diversity in engineering education are “well-intentioned, but...somewhat lacking in reflexivity and self-limiting in their impacts” (p. 335). Recently, journals in engineering education started requiring a positionality statement in each paper published. Such is the case of the Journal of Engineering Education and the Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering (Martin, Desing, & Borrego, 2002). Speakers: Stephen Secules. Florida International University, US Cassandra McCall. Utah State University, US Joel Alejandro Mejia. University of Texas at San Antonio, US