Designing Engineering and Technology Curricula

Embedding Educational Philosophy

John Heywood (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XXI, 141 Seiten

2022
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-03752-8 (ISBN)

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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.

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".

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	06.06.2022
Reihe/Serie	Synthesis Lectures on Engineering, Science, and Technology
Zusatzinfo	XXI, 141 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	191 x 235 mm
Gewicht	321 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Berufspädagogik
Themenwelt	Technik ► Maschinenbau
ISBN-10	3-031-03752-9 / 3031037529
ISBN-13	978-3-031-03752-8 / 9783031037528
Zustand	Neuware