Placing Engineering and Other Professions under Public Oversight: A First Step toward Dealing with Our Economic, Social, and Environmental Crises

Autor/in	Vanderburg, Willem H.
Titel	Placing Engineering and Other Professions under Public Oversight: A First Step toward Dealing with Our Economic, Social, and Environmental Crises
Quelle	In: Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 32 (2012) 2, S.171-180 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0270-4676
DOI	10.1177/0270467612455751
Schlagwörter	Western Civilization; Intellectual Disciplines; Culture; Bias; Experiential Learning; Educational Change; Higher Education; Municipalities; Economics; Medicine; Engineering; Technical Occupations; Governance + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geisteswissenschaften; Kultur; Experiental learning; Erfahrungsorientiertes Lernen; Bildungsreform; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Magistrat; Volkswirtschaftslehre; Medizin; Maschinenbau; Technical occupation; Technischer Beruf; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung
Abstract	The strengths and weaknesses of the discipline-based organization of our professions can help us understand both the enormous successes of our civilization and its equally spectacular failures. Placing engineering and other professions under greater public scrutiny is recommended as a first step toward addressing our deep structural economic, social, and environmental crises. Doing so can facilitate university reforms to adjust the discipline-based approaches to scientific knowing and technical doing, to permit future graduates to make decisions with better ratios of desired to undesired effects. In the meantime, our war on ourselves rages on. (Contains 1 table.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10