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Designing Engineering and Technology Curricula: Embedding Educational Philosophy: Synthesis Lectures on Engineering, Science, and Technology

Autor John Heywood
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 ian 2022
The intention of this book is to demonstrate that curriculum design is a profoundly philosophical exercise that stems from perceptions of the mission of higher education. Since the curriculum is the formal mechanism through which intended aims are achieved, philosophy has a profound role to play in the determination of aims. It is argued that the curriculum is far more than a list of subjects and syllabi, or that it is the addition, and subtraction, of items from a syllabus, or whether this subject should be added and that subject taken away. This book explores how curricular aims and objectives are developed by re-examining the curriculum of higher education and how it is structured in the light of its increasing costs, rapidly changing technology, and the utilitarian philosophy that currently governs the direction of higher education. It is concluded that higher education should be a preparation for and continuing support for life and work, a consequence of which is that it has to equip graduates with skill in independent learning (and its planning), and reflective practice. A transdisciplinary curriculum with technology at its core is deduced that serves the four realities of the person, the job, technology, and society.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783031037528
ISBN-10: 3031037529
Pagini: 141
Ilustrații: XXI, 141 p.
Dimensiuni: 191 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Springer
Seria Synthesis Lectures on Engineering, Science, and Technology

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

Preface.- Acknowledgments.- The Languages We Speak.- The Curriculum.- In Search of Aims.- Technology and the Changing Structure of the Workforce.- Education in Service of Employment.- Adaptability, Transfer of Learning, and Liberal Education.- Society and Technology.- Postscript.- Author's Biography.

Notă biografică

John Heywood is a Professorial Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College Dublin. His primary interest is in education for the professions, especially engineering, management and teacher education. He was awarded the best research publication award of the division for the professions of the American Educational Research Association in 2006 for his book “Engineering Education: Research and Development in Curriculum and Instruction” published by IEEE/Wiley. His other publications include “Learning, Adaptability and Change: The challenge for education and Industry”, “The Human Side of Engineering”, “Empowering Professional teaching in Engineering; Sustaining the Scholarship of Teaching”. He was a co-author of “Analysing Jobs”.