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Designing Engineering and Technology Curricula - Embedding Educational Philosophy (Paperback)
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Designing Engineering and Technology Curricula - Embedding Educational Philosophy (Paperback)
Series: Synthesis Lectures on Engineering, Science, and Technology
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The intention of this book is to demonstrate that curriculum design
is a profoundly philosophical exercise that stems from perceptions
of the mission of higher education. Since the curriculum is the
formal mechanism through which intended aims are achieved,
philosophy has a profound role to play in the determination of
aims.It is argued that the curriculum is far more than a list of
subjects and syllabi, or that it is the addition, and subtraction,
of items from a syllabus, or whether this subject should be added
and that subject taken away. This book explores how curricular aims
and objectives are developed by re-examining the curriculum of
higher education and how it is structured in the light of its
increasing costs, rapidly changing technology, and the utilitarian
philosophy that currently governs the direction of higher
education. It is concluded that higher education should be a
preparation for and continuing support for life and work, a
consequence of which is that it has to equip graduates with skill
in independent learning (and its planning), and reflective
practice. A transdisciplinary curriculum with technology at its
core is deduced that serves the four realities of the person, the
job, technology, and society.
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