Abstract
Engineers and engineering students often identify their work as rational and beyond emotion, and engineering is frequently characterized as a purely scientific activity involving technical solutions to real-world problems. This stereotype of the ‘unemotional engineer’ is increasingly at odds with the picture emerging from research in the field. Following on from the first meeting of the Emotions in Engineering Education Network (EEEN), hosted by Umeå University in 2020, it was identified that there was a lack of clarity regarding the conceptual frameworks and methods used in engineering education research addressing emotion.
An international team therefore set out to conduct a systematic review with the aim of critically assessing how researchers and scholars in engineering education have conceptualized emotions, and how those conceptualizations have been used to frame and conduct engineering education research and scholarship.
Methods
A configurative meta-synthesis was planned with the aim of mapping emotion theories and concepts, research purposes and methods, and citation patterns in the engineering education literature. The review process consisted of five stages: (i) database searching; (ii) abstract screening, full-text sifting, and full-text review; (iii) pearling; (iv) completing a scoping review; and (v) in-depth analysis for the meta-synthesis review. A total of 213 publications were included in the final analysis.
Participants
- Johanna Lönngren (Umeå University, Sweden)
- Alberto Bellocchi (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
- Maria Berge (Umeå University, Sweden)
- Pia Bøgelund (Aalborg University, Denmark)
- Inês Direito (University College London, United Kingdom)
- James L. Huff (Harding University, United States of America)
- Khairiyah Mohd-Yusof (University of Technology Malaysia)
- Homero Murzi (Virginia Tech, United States of America)
- Nor Farahwahidah Abdul Rahman (University of Technology Malaysia)
- Roland Tormey (EPFL, Switzerland), [email protected]
Dates
- Start date
- March 2020
- End date
- September 2024
Publications
- Lönngren, J., Bellocchi, A., Berge, M., Bøgelund, P., Direito, I., Huff, J. L., Mohd-Yusof, K., Murzi, H., Abdul Rahman, N. F., & Tormey, R. (2024).
Emotions in engineering education: A configurative meta-synthesis systematic review.
Journal of Engineering Education, 113(4), 1287–1326.
https://doi.org/10.1002/jee.20600 - Lönngren, J., Direito, I., Tormey, R., & Huff, J. L. (2023).
Emotions in Engineering Education.
In International Handbook of Engineering Education (pp. 156–182). Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003287483-10 - Lönngren, J., Bellocchi, A., Bøgelund, P., Direito, I., Huff, J., Mohd-Yusof, K., Murzi, H., & Tormey, R. (2021).
Emotions in Engineering Education: Preliminary Results from a Scoping Review.
Proceedings of the Research in Engineering Education Symposium & Australasian Association for Engineering Education Conference 2021, University of Western Australia.