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“I’m not that important”: Barriers and bolsters to student agency during conversations about the intersections of physics and ethics
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Brianne Gutmann, Egla Ochoa-Madrid, and Alice R. Olmstead
Physics has greatly impacted society, both in solving problems and perpetuating harm. Yet we rarely train physics students to grapple with their responsibilities to society by facilitating conversations about ethical issues. We developed and collected classroom video of a unit on the development of the atomic bomb. Here, we analyze a set of students' small group interactions to reveal factors that enable and limit their engagement. Enabling factors include: (a) curricular materials that elicit students' opinions, (b) opportunities for students to push each other to engage with the content, and (c) instructor facilitation that further pushes and validates student reasoning. Limiting factors include: (a) students' discomfort around inexperience with ethical reasoning in physics, (b) students' anticipation of their lack of agency in the physics community, and (c) students' projections of their lack of agency in a historical context due to their race and gender. We consider the implications of these factors for instruction.
Physics Education Research Conference 2020
Part of the PER Conference series Virtual Conference: July 22-23, 2020 Pages 191-197
2020 PERC Notable Paper
Author: Lyle This paper was one of four 2020 PERC Proceedings papers selected as notable by PERLOC and the Notable Papers subcommittee.
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<a href="https://www.compadre.org/portal/items/detail.cfm?ID=15482">Gutmann, B, E. Ochoa-Madrid, and A. Olmstead. "“I’m not that important”: Barriers and bolsters to student agency during conversations about the intersections of physics and ethics." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2020, Virtual Conference, July 22-23, 2020.</a>
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B. Gutmann, E. Ochoa-Madrid, and A. Olmstead, , presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2020, Virtual Conference, 2020, WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=15482&DocID=5330).
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B. Gutmann, E. Ochoa-Madrid, and A. Olmstead, “I’m not that important”: Barriers and bolsters to student agency during conversations about the intersections of physics and ethics, presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2020, Virtual Conference, 2020, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=15482&DocID=5330>.
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Gutmann, B., Ochoa-Madrid, E., & Olmstead, A. (2020, July 22-23). “I’m not that important”: Barriers and bolsters to student agency during conversations about the intersections of physics and ethics. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2020, Virtual Conference. Retrieved May 2, 2025, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=15482&DocID=5330
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Gutmann, B, E. Ochoa-Madrid, and A. Olmstead. "“I’m not that important”: Barriers and bolsters to student agency during conversations about the intersections of physics and ethics." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2020, Virtual Conference, July 22-23, 2020. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=15482&DocID=5330 (accessed 2 May 2025).
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Gutmann, Brianne, Egla Ochoa-Madrid, and Alice R. Olmstead. "“I’m not that important”: Barriers and bolsters to student agency during conversations about the intersections of physics and ethics." Physics Education Research Conference 2020. Virtual Conference: 2020. 191-197 of PER Conference. 2 May 2025 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=15482&DocID=5330>.
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Title = {“I’m not that important”: Barriers and bolsters to student agency during conversations about the intersections of physics and ethics},
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Month = {July 22-23},
Year = {2020}
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