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Tiêu đề
Flexible engineers: History, challenges, and opportunities for engineering education
Tác giả
Lucena J.C.
Năm xuất bản
2003
Source title
Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society
Số trích dẫn
19
DOI
10.1177/0270467603259875
Liên kết
Tóm tắt
Flexibility is a desired characteristic that people must have to adjust to inevitable processes of economic, cultural, and political globalization. Engineering education reform is often used as a justification for changes in curricula, delivery modes, and problem solving that should lead to curriculum integration, modular pedagogies, and systemic reform. Some educators have incorporated the concept in their programs and courses in a variety of ways whereas others have resisted changes to this day. Yet a detailed analysis of the meanings of flexibility, its origins and different forms, along with its challenges and opportunities for engineering education, remains to be done. This article surveys the historical origins of flexibility, identifies different forms of flexibility in engineering education, outlines existing challenges to flexibility-drive educational reform, and provides alternative views to the existing interpretation of flexibility in engineering education.
Từ khóa
Curriculum reform; Engineering sciences; Flexibility; Flexible engineers; History; Liberal arts
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SAGE Publications Inc.
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