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"I felt there was no team to be included in": Navigating social emotions and masculinities in engineering team projects

Background: Engineering education often upholds masculinity norms such as individual competitiveness and emotional stoicism. These norms affect team dynamics and students' satisfaction with learning experiences in team projects. Purpose: This study explore ...

American Society for Engineering Education2025

Exploring the emotional dimension in engineering ethics case studies: the latent emotions and associated features

Roland John Tormey, Nihat Kotluk

Ethics cases are widely used in engineering ethics education, offering ethical dilemma scenarios to analyse and discuss. Recent research highlights the importance of both cognitive and emotional dimensions involved in analysing ethical dilemmas. However, t ...

Informa UK Limited2025

The status of culturally relevant teacher education in the European context: A systematic review of research

Nihat Kotluk

In this systematic literature review spanning 2000 to 2024, we examine the landscape of culturally relevant education (CRE) in Europe. Our goal is to present a clear picture of how in-service and pre-service teachers perceive, practice and experience CRE i ...

Wiley2024

Reason and emotion in engineering ethics education

Roland John Tormey, Nihat Kotluk

This chapter discusses the relationship between reason and emotion in engineering ethics education (EEE), focusing on psychological and sociological perspectives. It identifies some factors that have led to emotions not being adequately considered alongsid ...

2024

The impact of varying levels of compassion in ethics education case studies on students' moral reasoning

Roland John Tormey, Nihat Kotluk

Previous research has revealed that including emotional content in ethics cases may improve students’ learning. However, there remain concerns as to whether the emotional content will also impact students’ moral reasoning. There is evidence that incorporat ...

Informa UK Limited2024

The impact of different methods of increasing the intensity of compassion in engineering ethics cases

Roland John Tormey, Nihat Kotluk

Despite the growing interest in emotions in engineering education, empirical research on incorporating them into engineering ethics education is limited. Therefore, we designed this experimental study to assess how different methods for integrating compass ...

2024

“But of course i’m going to look happy” or “He needed to know I was angry”? Comparing use of emotional labour in teamwork in engineering and hospitality students

Roland John Tormey, Nihat Kotluk

Being able to work effectively in a team is a vital professional skill but how do students in different disciplines, engineering and hospitality, display their emotions when working together? We investigated their self-reported use of emotional labour stra ...

EAPRIL - European Association for Practitioner Research on Improving Learning2024

Educating Engineering Students to Address Bias and Discrimination Within Their Project Teams

Roland John Tormey, Siara Ruth Isaac, Nihat Kotluk

What training should engineering students receive to enable them to contribute to reducing bias, discrimination and the persistent lack of diversity in engineering? Collaboration is central to professional engineering work and, consequently, teamwork and g ...

2023

Emotional labor experienced in team-projects: A comparison of engineering and hospitality students

Roland John Tormey, Nihat Kotluk

Team projects are an integral part of the student learning experience. However, emotions can significantly affect student performance during team projects. Students use different emotion regulation strategies, such as surface-acting (emotive dissonance) an ...

2023

Compassion and Engineering Students’ Moral Reasoning: The Emotional Experience of Engineering Ethics Cases

Roland John Tormey, Nihat Kotluk

Background: There has been an increase in interest in emotion in engineering and science ethics education. There is also evidence that emotional content in case studies may improve students’ learning and enhance awareness, understanding, and motivation con ...

American Society for Engineering Education2023