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Dzombak, Rachel; Mouakkad, Sally; Mehta, Khanjan – Advances in Engineering Education, 2016
Academic programs focused on engineering entrepreneurship are growing in number and popularity at American universities. However, the fields of engineering, entrepreneurship and technology-based entrepreneurship struggle to recruit and retain female students: a historic and endemic failure at obtaining gender-balanced participation. Understanding…
Descriptors: Females, Social Change, Engineering Education, Entrepreneurship
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Gaztambide-Fernandez, Ruben A.; Howard, Adam – Democracy & Education, 2013
Faced with the facts of economic inequality, the wealthy are confronted with a particular set of moral, social, and political questions, not least of which is the question of how to preserve a sense of being a "good" human being. In the case of justifying privilege, the problem becomes how to position oneself as being uniquely able to enact a…
Descriptors: Advantaged, Moral Values, Thinking Skills, Persuasive Discourse