A narrative inquiry into developing learner agency of engineering students in an intercultural PBL environment

IF 2 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

European Journal of Engineering Education Pub Date : 2022-09-03 DOI:10.1080/03043797.2022.2119371

D. Jiang, Bettina Dahl, Xiangyun Du

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This study explores how engineering students develop learner agency in an intercultural PBL (problem- and project-based learning) environment, along with the factors that affect their development. Theoretically, learner agency is framed within three interrelated dimensions: intrapersonal, behavioural, and environmental. A narrative inquiry approach is adopted to investigate 11 engineering master’s students’ perceptions of their agency development. The findings reveal 10 elements perceived as ways to develop learner agency of engineering students, namely belief in their own self-efficacy, motivation, global engineering identity, goal-setting, planning, monitoring, reflecting, trust building, team atmosphere, and support from supervisors and institutions. These results also show that different factors affect the building of learner agency for engineering students, such as students’ experiences before undertaking a master’s degree, their level of advancement in the program, the culture of each study program, communication styles, and the composition of the project group.

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跨文化PBL环境下工科学生学习能动性发展的叙事探究

摘要本研究探讨了工科学生在跨文化PBL（基于问题和项目的学习）环境中如何发展学习者代理能力，以及影响他们发展的因素。从理论上讲，学习者能动性是在三个相互关联的维度内构建的：个人、行为和环境。采用叙述性调查方法，调查了11名工程硕士生对其代理发展的看法。研究结果揭示了培养工科学生学习能动性的10个要素，即对自身自我效能感的信念、动机、全球工程认同、目标设定、计划、监督、反思、信任建设、团队氛围以及来自主管和机构的支持。这些结果还表明，不同的因素会影响工科学生学习代理的建立，如学生在攻读硕士学位之前的经历、他们在该项目中的进步水平、每个学习项目的文化、沟通方式和项目组的组成。

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European Journal of Engineering Education EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

CiteScore

7.30

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13.00%

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期刊介绍： European Journal of Engineering Education is published six times a year in print and electronic editions and provides an essential forum for dialogue between researchers and specialists in the field of engineering education, at European and worldwide levels. European Journal of Engineering Education is the Official Journal of SEFI, the Socièté Européenne pour la Formation des Ingénieurs (the European Society for Engineering Education). SEFI is a non-governmental organization whose aims are to develop information about engineering education, to improve communication and exchange between professors, researchers and students and to promote cooperation between the various institutions concerned with engineering education.