Virginia Grande Castro

Educational Developer at University Administration; Division for Quality Enhancement; Academic Teaching and Learning

Mobile phone:: +46 73 469 73 64
E-mail:: virginia.grande@uu.se
Visiting address:: Dag Hammarskjöldsväg 7
75237 Uppsala
Postal address:: Box 256
75105 Uppsala

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ORCID:: 0000-0002-9172-9969

Short presentation

Virginia Grande (they/them) is an educational developer at the Unit for Academic Teaching and Learning.

Virginia's research background is in computing and engineering education, particularly the educators' perspective. During their postdoc, Virginia studied computing educators' emotions when teaching: what norms and unwritten rules influenced which emotions were felt and (not) displayed. Their Ph.D. is on educators as role models.

Keywords

educators
emotions
computing and engineering education research
role models
computing education
ethics of care
ethics
identity and belonging

Research

My latest research is on educators' emotions when teaching in an engineering context, such as computing. In an international team of seven researchers, we explore what 22 computing educators share on their experiences of emotions: what they feel when teaching, and whether they display these emotions. For instance, we have published an analysis of norms that these educators may consider for their emotion display.

My Ph.D. studies were in Computing Education, under the supervision of Mats Daniels (main supervisor) from Uppsala University (UU), Anne-Kathrin Peters (from KTH), Anders Berglund (UU), and Päivi Kinnunen (University of Helsinki). I was part of the Uppsala Computing Education Research Group (UpCERG). I was also one of the Ph.D. students in UpRiSE, the Uppsala Research School in Subject Education.

My PhD research was focused on role models. This involved work such as analyzing the experiences of teachers in computing as role models for their students, of students reflecting on themselves as role models for others in the course, and generally on people in computing who may be emulated by others. I developed a framework as a way of thinking of role modeling from the role model's perspective, based on who is part of this phenomenon, what can be modeled (e.g., professional competencies, emotions, types of care), how, and why. I approached these questions with others using theories from ethics and identity research.

Media

Examples of recorded presentations and events that Virginia Grande has presented at and/or organized.

Virginia Grande's half-time seminar

Virginia Grande presents their PhD project on role modeling in computing at 70% completion and discusses with Päivi Kinnunen from University of Helsinki.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtZZzo3i55Y&list=PLh-4zSYcOMM182_r7iY7JPx02qm-g4F3O

Presentations and panel discussion on role modeling in computing

Virginia Grande chairs an event on role modeling in computing. They and panelists present and discuss. Topics include (teacher) competencies, emotions and inclusion of trans people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjs740sOtno&list=PLh-4zSYcOMM2UCOxEAqsvq-Tf84TBnplY

Publications

Recent publications

All publications

Articles in journal

Comprehensive doctoral thesis

That's How We Role! A Framework for Role Modeling in Computing and Engineering Education: A Focus on the Who, What, How, and Why

Grande, Virginia

2023
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