Metaphors of Change: Navigating a Revolution in Engineering Education
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Metaphors of Change : Navigating a Revolution in Engineering Education. / Breslin, Samantha Dawn; Camacho, Michelle.
I: Engineering Studies, Bind 13, Nr. 1, 09.04.2021, s. 53-77.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Metaphors of Change
T2 - Navigating a Revolution in Engineering Education
AU - Breslin, Samantha Dawn
AU - Camacho, Michelle
PY - 2021/4/9
Y1 - 2021/4/9
N2 - Engineering education is often decontextualized, even as it is suffused with metaphoric language and sociocultural norms and beliefs. Efforts to embed social context and sociotechnical content in engineering education are often met with resistance. We contribute to conversations about how to change dominant knowledge regimes by detailing the process by which a team grapples with efforts to change technically-focused curricula and practices in engineering education – and faculty members’ values and beliefs about them – by invoking metaphors. Metaphors of war and revolution, conversion/evangelism, and care permeate faculty discourse as they interpret and attempt to enact change. We show how these metaphors are significant in the ways that they both enable and constrain possibilities for change.
AB - Engineering education is often decontextualized, even as it is suffused with metaphoric language and sociocultural norms and beliefs. Efforts to embed social context and sociotechnical content in engineering education are often met with resistance. We contribute to conversations about how to change dominant knowledge regimes by detailing the process by which a team grapples with efforts to change technically-focused curricula and practices in engineering education – and faculty members’ values and beliefs about them – by invoking metaphors. Metaphors of war and revolution, conversion/evangelism, and care permeate faculty discourse as they interpret and attempt to enact change. We show how these metaphors are significant in the ways that they both enable and constrain possibilities for change.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Education
KW - metaphor
KW - change
KW - war
KW - conversion
KW - evangelism
KW - care
U2 - 10.1080/19378629.2021.1913173
DO - 10.1080/19378629.2021.1913173
M3 - Journal article
VL - 13
SP - 53
EP - 77
JO - Engineering Studies
JF - Engineering Studies
SN - 1937-8629
IS - 1
ER -
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