Sustainable development as a meta-context for engineering education
Sustainable development as a meta-context for engineering education
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可持续发展作为工程教育的元背景
DOI：
10.13044/j.sdewes.2013.01.0023
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2013
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K. Hargroves
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K. Mulder;C. Desha;K. Hargroves
在二十一世纪第一个十年即将结束之际，人们前所未有地认识到，需要进行发展改革，以满足当代人的需要，同时也保持后代满足其自身需要的能力。然而，在工程，教育工作者仍然倾向于把这样的发展作为工程的一个“方面”，而不是一个总体的元背景下，与特设和高度可变的参考主题。此外，在各种解释的范围内，实现可持续发展的需要似乎相互冲突，这可能会使学生和教育工作者感到困惑。在具体设计和（子）学科分析层面，可持续发展的不同表述可能会围绕设计师和研究人员相互冲突的需求产生困境。因此，可持续性问题需要在元一级使用整个系统的方法来解决，以便能够就这些困境做出决定。有了这种欣赏，并在课程更新的挑战，也存在于工程教育，本文认为教育工作者如何采取下一步行动，从可持续发展是一个有趣的“方面”的课程，可持续发展作为一个元背景下的课程更新。它的结论是，这种战略考虑的能力建设是至关重要的工程教育。
At the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, there is unprecedented awareness of the need for a transformation in development, to meet the needs of the present while also preserving the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. However, within engineering, educators still tend to regard such development as an ‘aspect’ of engineering rather than an overarching meta-context, with ad hoc and highly variable references to topics. Furthermore, within a milieu of interpretations there can appear to be conflicting needs for achieving sustainable development, which can be confusing for students and educators alike. Different articulations of sustainable development can create dilemmas around conflicting needs for designers and researchers, at the level of specific designs and (sub-) disciplinary analysis. Hence sustainability issues need to be addressed at a meta-level using a whole of system approach, so that decisions regarding these dilemmas can be made. With this appreciation, and in light of curriculum renewal challenges that also exist in engineering education, this paper considers how educators might take the next step to move from sustainable development being an interesting ‘aspect’ of the curriculum, to sustainable development as a meta-context for curriculum renewal. It is concluded that capacity building for such strategic considerations is critical in engineering education.
DOI：
10.5558/tfc64098-2
发表时间：
1987
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Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique
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