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This volume identifies, discusses and addresses the wide array of
ethical issues that have emerged for engineers due to the rise of a
global economy. To date, there has been no systematic treatment of
the particular challenges globalization poses for engineering
ethics standards and education. This volume concentrates on
precisely this challenge. Scholars and practitioners from diverse
national and professional backgrounds discuss the ethical issues
emerging from the inherent symbiotic relationship between the
engineering profession and globalization. Through their discussions
a deeper and more complete understanding of the precise ways in
which globalization impacts the formulation and justification of
ethical standards in engineering as well as the curriculum and
pedagogy of engineering ethics education emerges. The world today
is witnessing an unprecedented demand for engineers and other
science and technology professionals with advanced degrees due to
both the off-shoring of western jobs and the rapid development of
non-Western countries. The current flow of technology and
professionals is from the West to the rest of the world.
Professional practices followed by Western (or Western-trained)
engineers are often based on presuppositions which can be in
fundamental disagreement with the viewpoints of non-Westerners. A
successful engineering solution cannot be simply technically sound,
but also must account for cultural, social and religious
constraints. For these reasons, existing Western standards cannot
simply be exported to other countries. Divided into two parts, Part
I of the volume provides an overview of particular dimensions of
globalization and the criteria that an adequate engineering ethics
framework must satisfy in a globalized world. Part II of the volume
considers pedagogical challenges and aims in engineering ethics
education that is global in character.
This volume identifies, discusses and addresses the wide array of
ethical issues that have emerged for engineers due to the rise of a
global economy. To date, there has been no systematic treatment of
the particular challenges globalization poses for engineering
ethics standards and education. This volume concentrates on
precisely this challenge. Scholars and practitioners from diverse
national and professional backgrounds discuss the ethical issues
emerging from the inherent symbiotic relationship between the
engineering profession and globalization. Through their discussions
a deeper and more complete understanding of the precise ways in
which globalization impacts the formulation and justification of
ethical standards in engineering as well as the curriculum and
pedagogy of engineering ethics education emerges. The world today
is witnessing an unprecedented demand for engineers and other
science and technology professionals with advanced degrees due to
both the off-shoring of western jobs and the rapid development of
non-Western countries. The current flow of technology and
professionals is from the West to the rest of the world.
Professional practices followed by Western (or Western-trained)
engineers are often based on presuppositions which can be in
fundamental disagreement with the viewpoints of non-Westerners. A
successful engineering solution cannot be simply technically sound,
but also must account for cultural, social and religious
constraints. For these reasons, existing Western standards cannot
simply be exported to other countries. Divided into two parts, Part
I of the volume provides an overview of particular dimensions of
globalization and the criteria that an adequate engineering ethics
framework must satisfy in a globalized world. Part II of the volume
considers pedagogical challenges and aims in engineering ethics
education that is global in character.
Co-Existing in a Globalized World: Key Themes in Inter-Professional
Ethics brings together, and engages with, the scholarly work
accomplished individually under the banner of professional ethics
in various fields. The overarching theme of the volume is that
globalization inevitably pairs professionals from distinct fields
as co-workers. This necessitates serious reflection on how diverse
fields can co-exist and achieve superior results through combining
best practices from each. The authors are leading scholars and
practitioners who have diverse national and distinguished
professional backgrounds. These authors particularly focus on
ethical concerns emerging from the inherent symbiotic relationship
between cultural boundaries, professions and globalization.
Furthermore, they put focused emphasis on ethical compliance with
regard to globalization of professional practices into various
cultural settings. The fields represented in the volume include
international law, comparative education, East-West relations,
engineering and bio-medical ethics, research ethics, and
international professionalism in a cross-cultural context.
Europe and the Eastern Other critically evaluates and supports the
argument for adopting an intercultural or comparative approach in
western political theory. Hassan Bashir examines the encounters
between Europeans and their eastern others before the European
Enlightenment and illustrates that the West s cultural others have
played a foundational role in developing a distinct western
cultural self-understanding. This analysis includes records of
eyewitness accounts of European visitors in Eastern lands during
the medieval and early modern periods, including William of Rubruck
s account of the Mongol lands in mid-thirteenth century,
observations of the first Jesuit mission in the court of Mughal
Indian emperor Akbar the Great, and circumstances in late Ming
China as recorded in the journals of Jesuit missionary and scholar
Matteo Ricci. This work illustrates the dynamism and complexity
involved in an inter-cultural encounter and highlights the fact
that cultural self-understanding is often deeply rooted in how we
understand our cultural others."
This multidisciplinary volume highlights the transformed nature of
the relationship between higher education and society in the 21st
century. In particular, it argues that the development of the
global university, especially in the non-western world, has
transformed the traditional understanding of the relationship
between higher education and society. This has important
implications for the relations of state, as education has not only
become an object of national development policy but for many states
an important export. The history of the university reflects the
decisive social transformations which have given definition and
identity to both new nations and modern societies. In the post-war
period, universities in the industrialized world underwent a
radical shift. The mass expansion of higher education ensured that
universities were no longer centers designed to train youth to
assume the leadership positions held by previous generations.
Instead universities were to become centers where job skills could
be imparted and knowledge produced, refined and used in the newly
emerging Cold War economies, and where students could develop the
skills necessary for employment in a changing world. Rather than
focusing on the refinement of future leaders, the task of the
university became linked to the development of economically
exploitable technical knowledge. A shift of comparable magnitude is
now ongoing in the nature of higher education itself. Globalization
has led to the growth of knowledge communities around the world,
mirroring the rise of centers for global finance in previous
decades. In the Middle East and Asia the demands of the
knowledge-based economy have led to the opening of new indigenous
universities and branch campuses and partnerships with established
European and North American universities. Education City in Qatar,
for instance, has received or been pledged more than 200 billion
dollars since its inception. The growth of new indigenous
universities has altered the traditional role of the university
further, increasing the emphasis on courses which are close to the
marketplace. These new partnerships have contributed to the
creation of what is now referred to as the global university.
The success of individual nation states today is often measured in
terms of their ability to benefit from and contribute to a host of
global economic, political, socio-cultural, technological, and
educational networks. This increased multifaceted international
inter-dependence represents an intuitively contradictory and an
immensely complex situation. This scenario requires that national
governments, whose primary responsibility is towards their
citizenry, must relinquish a degree of control over state borders
to constantly developing trans and multinational regimes and
institutions. Once state borders become permeable all sorts of
issues related to rights earned or accrued due to membership of a
national community come into question. Given that neither
individuals nor states can eschew the influence of the growing
interdependence, this new milieu is often described in terms of
shrinking of the world into a global village. This reshaping of the
world requires us to broaden our horizons and re-evaluate the
manner in which we theorize human personhood within communal
boundaries. It also demands us to acknowledge that the relative
decline of Euro-American economic and political influence and the
rise of Asian and Latin American states at the global level have
created spaces in which a de-territorialized and a de-historicized
notion of citizenship and state can now be explored. The essays in
this volume represent diverse disciplinary, analytical, and
methodological approaches to understand what the implications are
of being a citizen of both a nation state and the world
simultaneously. In sum, Deconstructing Global Citizenship explores
the question of whether a synthesis of contradictory national and
global tendencies in the term "global citizenship" is even
possible, or if we are better served by fundamentally reconsidering
our ideas of "citizenship," "community," and "politics."
Europe and the Eastern Other critically evaluates and supports the
argument for adopting an intercultural or comparative approach in
western political theory. Hassan Bashir examines the encounters
between Europeans and their eastern others before the European
Enlightenment and illustrates that the West s cultural others have
played a foundational role in developing a distinct western
cultural self-understanding. This analysis includes records of
eyewitness accounts of European visitors in Eastern lands during
the medieval and early modern periods, including William of Rubruck
s account of the Mongol lands in mid-thirteenth century,
observations of the first Jesuit mission in the court of Mughal
Indian emperor Akbar the Great, and circumstances in late Ming
China as recorded in the journals of Jesuit missionary and scholar
Matteo Ricci. This work illustrates the dynamism and complexity
involved in an inter-cultural encounter and highlights the fact
that cultural self-understanding is often deeply rooted in how we
understand our cultural others."
Co-Existing in a Globalized World: Key Themes in Inter-Professional
Ethics brings together, and engages with, the scholarly work
accomplished individually under the banner of professional ethics
in various fields. The overarching theme of the volume is that
globalization inevitably pairs professionals from distinct fields
as co-workers. This necessitates serious reflection on how diverse
fields can co-exist and achieve superior results through combining
best practices from each. The authors are leading scholars and
practitioners who have diverse national and distinguished
professional backgrounds. These authors particularly focus on
ethical concerns emerging from the inherent symbiotic relationship
between cultural boundaries, professions and globalization.
Furthermore, they put focused emphasis on ethical compliance with
regard to globalization of professional practices into various
cultural settings. The fields represented in the volume include
international law, comparative education, East-West relations,
engineering and bio-medical ethics, research ethics, and
international professionalism in a cross-cultural context.
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