Feminist Scholarship in Engineering Education: Challenges and Tensions

Engineering Studies

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 205-232

  Beddoes, Kacey D ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

disciplinary development; engineering education; engineering education research; feminism; feminist theory; history of disciplines

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC FIELDS; DISCIPLINARY DEVELOPMENT; ENGINEERING EDUCATION RESEARCH; ENGINEERING KNOWLEDGE; FEMINISM; FEMINIST THEORY; IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS; INSTITUTIONAL CONSTRAINTS; RESEARCH FIELDS;

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 84870520277     PISSN: 19378629     EISSN: 19408374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19378629.2012.693932     Document Type: Article

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