You can change the world, but not this homework assignment: The contradictory rhetoric of engineering agency
You can change the world, but not this homework assignment: The contradictory rhetoric of engineering agency
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你可以改变世界，但不能改变这个家庭作业：工程机构的矛盾说辞
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2017
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L. Cagle
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Mel Chua;L. Cagle
这篇正在进行的论文表明，工程招聘信息和工程教学法向学生发送了混合信息。我们描述了一个批判性话语分析研究的早期阶段，该研究表明，招聘信息往往将工程师描绘为变革的强大推动者，而教科书和家庭作业等教学文件的措辞往往将工程专业的学生定位为缺乏质疑或改变定义他们必须解决的问题的约束的机构。我们对工程教育话语的分析使用了“topoi”或“commonplaces”的修辞概念，以确定工程师的常见表达方式。基于社会学、符号学和修辞学中的代理理论工作，我们得出结论，工程教育话语中对工程师的常见描述可以提供相互冲突的想法，即工程师拥有多少代理来改变他们周围的世界。
This work-in-progress paper suggests that engineering recruitment messaging and engineering pedagogy send mixed messages to students. We describe the early stages of a critical discourse analysis study that shows recruitment messaging often portraying engineers as powerful agents of change, while the phrasings of pedagogical documents such as textbooks and homework assignments often position engineering students as lacking agency to question or change the constraints that define the problems they must solve. Our analysis of engineering education discourse uses the rhetorical concept of “topoi,” or commonplaces, to identify common articulations of what it means to be an engineer. Based on theoretical work on agency in sociology, semiotics, and rhetoric, we conclude that common descriptions of engineers in engineering education discourse can offer conflicting ideas of how much agency engineers possess to change the world around them.