Bringing in "The Social" : Resisting and Assisting Social Engagement in Engineering Education
Bringing in "The Social" : Resisting and Assisting Social Engagement in Engineering Education
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引入“社会”：工程教育中社会参与的抵制与协助
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2018
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J. Harrison
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Skye Niles;Santina L. Contreras;S. Roudbari;J. Kaminsky;J. Harrison
本文探讨了学生如何体验社会知识融入工程教育。和平工程需要超越纯粹的技术工程，对工程如何促进社区发展和社会利益有一个综合的社会和技术理解。本研究的重点是学生的经验，在两个主要的工程社区发展计划，积极整合社会和技术知识的工程教育，培养更多的社会参与的工程师的目标。我们发现，工程的社会背景和影响的知识与既定的技术为中心的规范工程知识和实践的紧张局势和冲突。这使得这些概念的采用和整合对于从事这些领域的学生来说具有挑战性。我们的结论是，“社会”的整合不仅仅需要教育内容的转变，还依赖于工程文化的变化和课堂内外的学生支持，以挑战工程身份、知识的规范性、技术中心主义概念和实践。这对和平工程具有重要意义，因为了解学生如何将“社会”知识融入工程教育是发展和支持未来和平工程师的关键。
This paper explores how students experience the integration of social knowledge into engineering education. Engineering for peace requires going beyond purely technical engineering towards an integrated social and technical understanding of how engineering can promote community development and societal good. This study focuses on student experiences at two major engineering for community development programs that are actively integrating social and technical knowledge in engineering education, with the goal of training more socially-engaged engineers. We find that knowledge of the social context and implications of engineering creates tensions and conflicts with established technocentric norms of engineering knowledge and practice. This makes the adoption and integration of these concepts challenging for students engaged in these fields. We conclude that integration of "the social" requires more than shifts in educational content and is also reliant on changes in engineering culture and student support both inside and outside of the classroom in order to challenge normative, technocentric conceptions of engineering identity, knowledge, and practice. This has important implications for peace engineering, because understanding how students are integrating knowledge of "the social" in engineering education is key to the development and support of future peace engineers.