Book chapter
Rupturing Engineering Education
Technoscience and Environmental Justice
02 Sep 2011
Abstract
This chapter, which reviews the opportunities for redefining expert roles provided through an emerging trend in higher education, reveals that environmental justice (EJ) activists’ urge to transform science and technology requires engineers who participate in the problem-solving process. It shows how some engineering teachers use service-learning projects where students participate in community projects for better understanding of their course concepts. The students are able to examine specific roles as experts in ways that meet the requirements of environmental justice. This aspect of engineering education is demonstrated through the example of the “Technology and Environmental Justice” course taught at University of Virginia. Students interact with EJ advocates on different projects in the course, to gather more information on environmental justice.
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Details
- Title
- Rupturing Engineering Education
- Creators
- Gwen Ottinger
- Publication Details
- Technoscience and Environmental Justice
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Politics
- Other Identifier
- 991021863490504721