Where is ‘Community’?: Engineering education and sustainable community development
Where is ‘Community’?: Engineering education and sustainable community development
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“社区”在哪里？：工程教育与可持续社区发展
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2008
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J. Lucena
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Jen Schneider;J. Leydens;J. Lucena
在美国和欧洲，随着工程教育工作者寻求为学生提供设计环境可持续技术的知识和技能，可持续发展倡议正在激增。许多这样的倡议涉及来自“北方”或“发达”国家的学生，他们为“南方”的村庄或社区建造项目。工程教育中的可持续发展项目因满足多种教育成果和为学生提供重要的国际培训而受到称赞。这篇论文认为，这些项目需要教育学生批判性地思考他们作为发展专业人员的角色，理解和重视社区在发展项目中的作用，并为这些项目制定长期的评估标准。它认为，工程教育工作者需要有意义地让“社区”参与可持续的社区发展。
Sustainable development initiatives are proliferating in the US and Europe as engineering educators seek to provide students with knowledge and skills to design technologies that are environmentally sustainable. Many such initiatives involve students from the ‘North,’ or ‘developed’ world building projects for villages or communities in the ‘South.’ Sustainable development projects in engineering education are being lauded for meeting multiple educational outcomes and providing students with important international training. This paper argues that such programmes need to educate students to think critically about their role as development professionals, to understand and value the role of community in development projects, and to develop long-term assessment criteria for such projects. It argues that engineering educators need to meaningfully engage the ‘community’ in sustainable community development.