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Philosophy and Engineering Education - Practical Ways of Knowing (Paperback)
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Philosophy and Engineering Education - Practical Ways of Knowing (Paperback)
Series: Synthesis Lectures On Engineering, Science, And Technology
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Pragmatism attends to the practical outcomes of what we think and
do, the social community in which we practice, and the bases of
experience to inform our ideas and practices. Practice theories
help explain what we do as complex systems of activity. Together,
pragmatism and practice theories help broaden our understanding of
the nature of engineering work as a social practice having
important consequences for individuals and society. The practical
nature of engineering embedded in our complex social and community
systems is emphasized. Of all the pragmatists John Dewey's
influence on education has been the most profound. He promoted
social democracy in education. Although he founded experimental
schools with this as their goal of major interest, to engineering
educators his promotion of problem solving through a form of
inquiry is his major attraction. Its modern embodiment is
problem-based learning. It requires teachers to become facilitators
of learning rather than transmitters of knowledge. How, within the
framework of a traditionally oriented curriculum Dewey's
epistemology of inquiry-based learning might be introduced is
discussed. Lonergan's basic method of the human mind underlying
specialized methods offers a basis for a unified theory and
pedagogy of engineering. It also provides for a conception of
engineering that gives due recognition to its ethical character and
to the need for engineering virtues. This knowing-based view of
engineering, focused on "engineering insight," provides the basis
for a core, discipline-neutral approach to engineering. It proposes
an engineering education centered on norms inherent to the knowing
process, specifically attentiveness and intentionality. These norms
in turn provide a source for defining and developing engineering
virtues and character.
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