The hidden curriculum in two employability skills development courses in a South African electrical engineering degree programme
The hidden curriculum in two employability skills development courses in a South African electrical engineering degree programme
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南非电气工程学位课程中两门就业技能发展课程中的隐藏课程
DOI：
10.1080/13639080.2020.1820962
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
1.4
通讯作者：
G. Nudelman
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作者：
G. Nudelman
摘要就业能力的发展是当代工程教育的一个焦点，无论是在国外还是在南非，从那里本研究的起源。然而，为实现这一目标而采取的教学举措可能没有考虑到这种强调就业能力的思想基础，也没有考虑到为实现这一目标而制定的课程。本研究利用话语分析作为一种工具来分析文本相关的最后一年的课程配对提供给电气工程专业的学生，其明确的目的是发展就业技能。借鉴费尔克拉夫的三维话语概念，文本，其中包括教师手册摘录，课程讲义，时间表，和额外的教学材料，提供洞察课程的思想基础，以及他们的创作背景。研究结果揭示了新自由主义基础的课程配对一般，更具体地说，三个话语，在整个课程互动：“自我企业家”的话语，话语的“必然性”和“一刀切”的话语。该研究的结论是，延续这些话语将导致工程行业内的复制，而不是转型和创新。
ABSTRACT Employability development is a focus of contemporary engineering education, both abroad and in South Africa, from where this study emanates. However, pedagogic initiatives in service of this goal may fail to take into consideration the ideological underpinnings of this emphasis on employability, as well as of the curricula developed in its service. This study utilises discourse analysis as a tool to analyse texts relating to a final-year course pairing offered to electrical engineering students, which explicitly aims to develop employability skills. Drawing on Fairclough’s three-dimensional conception of discourse, the texts, which include faculty handbook extracts, course handouts, timetables, and additional teaching materials, provide insight into the ideological underpinnings of the courses as well as the context of their creation. The findings of the study reveal the neoliberal foundation of the course-pairing in general and, more specifically, three discourses that interact throughout the courses: the ‘entrepreneur of self’ discourse, the discourse of ‘inevitability’ and the ‘one-size-fits-all’ discourse. The study concludes by suggesting that perpetuating these discourses will lead to replication within the engineering industry, as opposed to transformation and innovation.