Engineering the Curriculum

设计课程

• 批准号: EP/E031269/1
• 负责人: Jane Magill
• 金额: $ 43.64万
• 依托单位: University of Glasgow
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2006 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FE031269%2F1
• 关键词: Engineering; Curriculum

Engineering the Curriculum is a joint project from Ken Gadd, Roland Jackson, Ben Johnson and Jane MagillDespite a cascade of initiatives from a bewildering number of sources, engineering remains a Cinderella subject at school level and for the wider population. Perceptions of engineers as semi-skilled workers with oily rags are still widespread and are a major influence in the poor uptake of engineering courses by school leavers. This has led to a dearth of well-qualified engineers entering the research community and the labour market in the UK.We propose the introduction of relevant and contextualised engineering ideas and concepts into the class room for a high proportion of the pre-16 school population. Crucially, this project is not proposing discretionary enrichment or outreach activities. Rather, engineering focussed material will form an integral part of the assessed science curriculum. This project comes at a time of unique opportunity. The new applied Science GCSE enters the curriculum in 2006. With little or no other curricular material available or in preparation, we can deliver resources to large numbers of schools and reach a minimum target of 80,000 pupils per year.

工程课程是一个联合项目，由肯加德，罗兰杰克逊，本约翰逊和简马吉尔尽管从一个令人困惑的来源级联的倡议，工程仍然是一个灰姑娘的主题在学校一级和更广泛的人口。人们仍然普遍认为工程师是拿着油布的半熟练工人，这是造成离校生对工程课程学习率低的一个主要因素。这导致了缺乏合格的工程师进入研究界和劳动力市场在英国。我们建议引入相关的和情境化的工程思想和概念到教室的高比例的16岁以前的学校人口。至关重要的是，该项目并不建议随意充实或外展活动。相反，以工程为重点的材料将成为评估科学课程的一个组成部分。这个项目是在一个独特的机会。2006年，新的应用科学GCSE课程进入课程。在几乎没有或没有其他教材可用或正在编写的情况下，我们可以向大量学校提供资源，并达到每年80 000名学生的最低目标。