Published: Aug. 3, 2024
Abstract Mental health challenges are a growing concern in engineering education. A culture that promotes wellness could support both student and faculty psychological health. As part of larger, ongoing project on the mental undergraduate engineers, our team has investigated how stress interact education to produce environments promote hardness over wellness. We posit staff influential stakeholders defining academic programs, thus making them important sources information for understanding associated core shared beliefs assumptions. The goal this paper is qualitatively analyze what imagine or believe would look like engineering. To collect their perceptions culture, conducted interviews with informed by cultural framework proposed Godfrey Parker. Participants (N=28) worked primarily students represented range disciplines, from biomedical physics, as well variety institution types sizes. Specifically, responses question "What do you think your department should like?" were separated rest data thematic analysis. developed codebook, applied it data, used analysis identify topics grouped motif, resulting three overarching themes representing data. With focus actionable patterns meaning, (1) Building Supportive Community, (2) Improving Work Academic Policy, (3) Supporting Self-Care Student Wellness Resources. expressed views might suggested ideas they be beneficial implement. These suggestions included aspects caring community, mindful policy change, through resources. Implementing participant regarding lead changes existing which better understand interact, future work will expand include analyzed synthesized prior work, facilitate identification strategies Culture built minute actions all participants, identifying individual well-being community critical working towards productive rewarding involved.
Language: Английский
