Production of ignorance and the gender gap in STEM: an approach to engineering education

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24197/st.Extra_1.2021.139-159

Keywords:

STEM gap; engineering; gender; production of ignorance; agnotology

Abstract

The study offers an alternative for the debate about the gender gap in STEM fields based on the relationship between engineering, gender, and ignorance. Unlike other approaches to the gap, its focus is epistemic. Its thesis is that gender can be taken as an epistemic factor of production of ignorance in engineering education. To support this thesis, the object of analysis is an extracurricular program employed for the education of engineering students in a Colombian university. Its method of data collection is the charrette workshop

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Author Biography

  • JULIANA ARROYAVE RINCÓN, Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano

     

     

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Published

2021-03-03

Issue

Vol. 11 No. Extra_1 (2021): Present and Future of STEM Training: Challenges and Defiances

Section

Monographic

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Production of ignorance and the gender gap in STEM: an approach to engineering education. (2021). Sociología Y Tecnociencia, 11(Extra_1), 139-159. https://doi.org/10.24197/st.Extra_1.2021.139-159