Designing Engineering and Technology Curricula: Embedding Educational Philosophy 1st John Heywood

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1636392776
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1636392776
• Author(s): John Heywood

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.

Table contents:

1. Notes and References
2. Society and Technology
3. The Aims of Higher Education
4. Prospects: Determining the Programme
5. Examples of “Bridging” Key Concepts
6. The “Over-Arching” Concept of Design
7. Whitehead’s Rhythmic Theory of Learning
8. The Goals of a Stage of “Romance” in a Program for Engineering and Technological Literacy
9. The Stage of Romance and Content
10. Conclusion
11. Notes and References
12. Postscript
13. An Experimental Curriculum
14. Introduction
15. An Experimental Curriculum
16. Notes and References
17. Author’s Biography

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