by Stephen Secules | Oct 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
One of my first tips for writing is: it’s not about you, it’s about your reader. I think early on in academic we think a lot about writing to express, writing to impress, writing to prove we are smart, writing to critique. These are fine to practice with, but... by Stephen Secules | Sep 29, 2023 | Uncategorized
Sometimes I feel I don’t have a very sophisticated research agenda… The things I’ve tended to write about can seem obvious, ordinary, everyone knows about it. Competition, ability, culture, classrooms—it’s everyday, ordinary stuff. I’ve been told I’m now “Mr.... by Stephen Secules | Aug 11, 2023 | Random
In the coming year I’ll go up for tenure, which is a time for clarifying my individual approach and contribution. As such I’ve been reflecting on our research group’s work together and what characterizes it. For start, of course, we named it Equity Research Group, and... by Stephen Secules | Aug 2, 2023 | Random
When I wrote a JEE editorial recently about “white humility” (Secules, 2023), I asked about epistemology, or how we know what we know. I pointed to a few intersecting aspects: each person’s individual epistemology, an engineering epistemology we may have some...
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