Academic staff on connections to professional practice and research in engineering education: a discourse analysis

被引:5
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作者
Magnell, Marie [1 ]
机构
[1] KTH Royal Inst Technol, Dept Learning Engn Sci, Sch Ind Engn & Management, Stockholm, Sweden
关键词
Research-teaching links; professional practice; engineering education; teaching and learning regimes; discourse analysis;
D O I
10.1080/03043797.2020.1729103
中图分类号
G40 [教育学];
学科分类号
040101 ; 120403 ;
摘要
Connections to research and professional practice are both essential components of engineering education, although handled differently across engineering programmes. The aim of this paper is to identify discourses on these components across three engineering programmes to in depth understand these variations. A discourse analysis was conducted on interviews, documents and observations and the results show three distinct discourses: the relevance and usefulness discourse, primarily emphasising engineering professional practice and connections to industry; the research and independence discourse, primarily accentuating research connections and independence from external actors; and the dual coupling and sustainability discourse, mainly highlighting a combination of connections to research and professional practice, along with a focus on sustainable development. The overall function of the discourses is interpreted as enhancing the particular characteristics of each programme and resisting different types of influences that threaten to undermine the characteristics of each programme.
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页码:780 / 793
页数:14
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