书目名称 | Designing Engineering and Technology Curricula | 副标题 | Embedding Educationa | 编辑 | John Heywood | 视频video | | 丛书名称 | Synthesis Lectures on Engineering, Science, and Technology | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | 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 th | 出版日期 | Book 2022 | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-03762-7 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-03752-8 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-03762-7Series ISSN 2690-0300 Series E-ISSN 2690-0327 | issn_series | 2690-0300 | copyright | Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022 |
The information of publication is updating
|
|