Cultures of collaboration in engineering design education: a contrastive case study in France and Japan
Cultures of collaboration in engineering design education: a contrastive case study in France and Japan
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工程设计教育中的合作文化：法国和日本的对比案例研究
DOI：
10.1080/21650349.2016.1218796
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发表时间：
2016
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Celine Mougenot
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作者：
Francoise Detienne;Michael Baker;Mohini Vanhille;Celine Mougenot
工程专业的学生需要学会在文化多元化的社会组织环境中合作、创造和创新。然而，对跨文化差异的研究提供的结果并不是专门基于协作和创造性的工程教育实践。本文提出了工程专业学生在协作设计情况下对协作质量评估的对比案例研究。基于扩展的多维评估方法（称为“QC2”），我们对比了法国和日本工科学生对以下方面的评估：（1）设计中理想的协作； （2）法国、日本协同设计实际案例的协同质量（如视频所示）。结果显示，在与工程领域具体相关的设计方面，法国和日本的工程专业学生存在共同的合作文化，但在小组工作维度的评估（任务/小组导向和论证）方面存在差异。这些详细案例研究的结果与一般文化差异研究（主要是基于问卷的）结果进行了比较。最后，我们展望了阐述机构合作文化的跨文化操作概念的前景，以及对培训工程专业学生的影响，特别是对多元文化合作的影响。
Engineering students need to learn to collaborate, to create and to innovate in culturally diverse socio-organisational contexts. However, research on intercultural differences provides results that are not specifically grounded in collaborative and creative engineering education practices. This paper presents a contrastive case study of engineering students’ appraisals of the quality of collaboration in collaborative design situations. Based on an extended multidimensional appraisal method (called ‘QC2’), we contrasted French and Japanese engineering students’ appraisals of: (1) ideal collaboration in design; (2) quality of collaboration with respect to actual cases of collaborative design in France and in Japan (as shown on videos). Results showed a common French–Japanese culture of collaboration across the engineering students with respect to aspects of design relating specifically to the domain of engineering, yet differences with respect to appraisals of dimensions of group work (task/group orientation and argumentation). These results, of a detailed situated case study, are compared with results of (mostly questionnaire-based) research on general cultural differences. We conclude with prospects for elaborating an operational trans-cultural concept of institutional culture of collaboration, and implications for training engineering students, especially for multicultural collaboration.