Buch, Englisch, 76 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: Synthesis Lectures On Engineering, Science, And Technology
Buch, Englisch, 76 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: Synthesis Lectures On Engineering, Science, And Technology
ISBN: 978-1-63639-317-9
Verlag: MORGAN & CLAYPOOL
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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- Series Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Implications of Pragmatism and Practice Theories for Engineering Practice
- John Dewey's Philosophical Perspectives and Engineering Education
- From Dewey to Lonergan
- Engineering Insight: The Philosophy of Bernard Lonergan Applied to the Engineering Knowledge Generation
- Authors' Biographies