A Conceptual Model for Engineering Educators in Rural Places: Critical Reflection and Engagement

TENET	PURPOSE	REFLECTION QUESTIONS
Understand self and context rooted in place	To reflect on our own identities through a lens of place, and to more deeply understand our connections to rurality.	Did you grow up in a rural place? How do you describe your identities (e.g. race, gender, socioeconomic status)? Did you have access to education? Maybe you are from the region or the community in which you are conducting research. How does this inform or affect your data collection and relationships with your participants? What do your participants think about your research or intervention?
Seek to (re)contextualize curriculum.	To make explicit connections to local contexts to ground student learning and validate their experiences and identities.	How do I understand this place related to my position in it? How do the people with whom I am working understand and describe this place? Who has expertise that could fill in gaps in my knowledge or experiences? What do the people with whom I am working find interesting and relevant?
Encourage students’ assets and other ways of knowing.	To recognize the assets of rural students, rural places, and the benefit of rural literacies.	How do you view your own knowledge in relation to the knowledge of others? What traditions or ways of knowing informed your own education? What are the things you view as resources or assets that can inform students’ learning? How is what we know informed by place?
Engage critically and hopefully.	To recognize the importance of engaging students in critical, relevant issues while providing the language of possibility and hope.	What systems can I identify around me and how are they at work? What are the resources I can identify in this community? What are the resources others identify? Where are resources located in the community and how are they accessed? What are some major industries or businesses that might impact this community? What do the people with whom I am working identify as problems, opportunities, resources or assets in their community? What do I (or others) want or imagine the future to be?

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21061/see.97 | Journal eISSN: 2690-5450

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Language: English

Page range: 201 - 221

Submitted on: May 14, 2022

Accepted on: Dec 13, 2023

Published on: Jan 4, 2024

Published by: Virginia Tech Publishing

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

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