加拿大百年理工学院基于CBE模式的课程开发及启示

通过在加拿大的参观、培训、交流和学习,从职业教育体系、课程开发角度研究了加拿大的高等职业教育,提出了我国高等职业教育的一些建议。     

中国工程教育的现状和展望

在当今全球化、信息化的时代背景下,工程科技的发展水平体现着一国的核心竞争力。自改革开放以来,我国高等工程教育取得了很大成绩,表现为教育规模快速扩张,教育结构发生积极变化,教育投入大幅提高,教育质量有所提高,教育教学改革在积极开展,国际合作在不断推进。同时,我国工程教育也存在着一些问题,如供需之间存在矛盾、学校发展目标与模式趋同化、教学中缺乏实践环节、教学体系不适应工程特点、创新与创业教育重视不足、学生综合能力素质薄弱。未来将多管齐下,改善上述不足,提高我国工程教育的质量。     

What do final year engineering students know about sustainable development?

This paper presents data from a project that aims to determine the level of knowledge and understanding of engineering students about sustainable development (SD). The data derive from a survey completed by final year engineering students in three Irish Higher Education Institutions. This paper is part of a larger study that examines the relationship between students’ and teachers’ understanding of SD. The results from the survey show that final year engineering students’ knowledge is deficient. The majority of the participants fail to acknowledge the complexity of the concept and focus on environmental protection. Their knowledge of legislation relevant to SD and the social aspect of sustainability is particularly deficient.     

Equitable partnerships for mutual learning or perpetuator of North–South power imbalances? Ireland–South Africa school links

This study examines how various components of a school-linking programme between Ireland and South Africa either support Development Education’s goal of sustainable, equitable partnerships that enable mutual learning between Northern and Southern countries or, instead, promote power imbalances that reify stereotypic images of weak, needy Southerners being cared for by powerful, benevolent Northerners. Ethnographic data from schools in both sites suggest that divergent assumptions about and priorities for Development Education in Ireland and South Africa, disproportionate exchange visits, socio-economic differences and an ‘inward’ South African focus versus a ‘global’ Irish focus set the stage for power imbalances within the linking programme. Recommendations for a conjointly conducted revision of the agenda for school-linking programmes are made. These centre on helping learners understand how issues of power and power imbalance function at the local, national and global levels.     

我国高等工程教育转型:历史变迁与当代实践逻辑

纵观历史,我国高等工程教育经历了三次大的重要转型:清朝末期至民国时期层次化和制度化的工程教育转型,中华人民共和国成立初期国家化和工具化的工程教育转型以及改革开放以来以“一体两翼”为核心的工程教育转型。当代我国高等工程教育探索主要体现在工程教育理念、人才培养模式和工程教育目标三个方面,表现为国家、市场和院校之间非线性变迁的发展逻辑,政府规制与高校自治相统一的治理逻辑,国际化与本土化共振的行动逻辑,目标与需求一致的人才培养逻辑。这些转型逻辑对于新工科建设具有重要的理论价值和实践指导意义。     

Environmental engineering education (E3) in the Gulf Co-operation Countries

The six members of the Gulf Co-operation Countries (GCC)—Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates—are facing enormous environmental challenges associated with rapid urbanisation and industrialisation, especially in the last three decades, due to its role as a global hydrocarbon energy centre. None of these countries have systematic and specialised academic programmes with the sole purpose of Environmental Engineering Education (E3). The current status of E3 in the universities across the region is surveyed and thus the individual and collective higher education policies towards environmental affairs are highlighted. The E3 policies of the regional universities are then compared to the benchmark status of the European and the US universities. The ABET criteria are used to evaluate non-E3 programs. The survey shows that the environmental engineering subjects were mostly taught under the umbrella of civil or chemical engineering departments in the GCC countries. An educational scheme for E3 in the GCC higher education institutes is proposed that is based on the evolution of E3 approach in the Western universities.     

企业开展继续工程教育活动的探讨

从现代企业对人才结构的需求出发,通过对企业继续工程教育系统的内在结构进行剖析,就企业继续工程教育有效促进人才个体发展对人才合理开发的实际意义展开探讨,并进一步探索促进人才个体发展的有效途径。     

全球化教育对美国多元文化教育的冲击

全球化教育是当今美国高等教育体系的发展重心,它与美国政府竭力提升全球竞争力的国策相契合。全球化教育以培养学生的地球村意识、跨文化意识及人类选择意识为主旨,全球化教育的实施是美国试图向世界其他国家与地区输出其强势文化,以期建立以美国文化为首的大一统文化的过程,这种强调美国文化具有普遍性特征的全球化教育给推崇异质性的多元文化教育带来了巨大冲击。在政治领域,全球化教育力图维护美国的全球话语霸权,与多元文化倡导的分享、平等与对话相悖;在经济领域,全球化教育充分利用了美国的优势地位,使美国教育直奔商品化主题,与多元文化教育倡导的教育应是规范化的社会科学相左;在社会文化领域,全球化教育加快了教育走向虚拟化、电子化的步伐,逐步解构着多元文化教育倡导的个体性、地方性和民族性。全球化教育与多元文化教育的协调发展需处理好普遍性与特殊性、地方主义与全球合作、个人权利与公共责任等多方面的关系。     

Border work: Teachers’ expressions of their literacy-related professional development needs in a First Nations school

This paper reports on a case study of teachers’ expressions of their literacy-related professional development needs in a First Nations school located in Ontario, Canada. The paper construes the work of the teachers as “border work” and argues that their literacy teaching work was complex and tied to an ongoing legacy of colonialism. Four interrelated themes are discussed. The paper recommends improving compensation and job security for educators in First Nations schools and supporting them to see themselves as knowledgeable professionals who can entertain sophisticated notions of literacy that consider its relationship to situation including culture.     

Integration of sustainable development in sanitary engineering education in Sweden

In the Swedish Act for higher education, as well as in the policies of technical universities, it is stated that sustainable development (SD) should be integrated into engineering education. Researchers argue that SD needs to be integrated into the overall course content rather than added as a specific course. In this paper, six engineering lecturers have been interviewed to give their views on how SD can be integrated into teaching water and sanitation engineers. Engineering lecturers seem unsure how to interpret SD in relation to their own specific courses. Students are said to request technical knowledge rather than fuzzy ideas of SD and lecturers struggle to open up the teaching to more problem-based perspectives. Sanitary professionals in work practice relate to SD as a core in water treatment processes and regret that responsibility for SD issues fall between traditional departmental structures in society.     

Assessment of curriculum quality through alumni research

In today's output defined society, alumni are the output of higher education. This article shows how alumni research can be used as an important indicator of curriculum quality. This relatively unexplored area of engineering education research in Europe is highlighted using a case study carried out in the Netherlands, the outcomes of which have served as a useful input for curriculum development at the institute where it was carried out.     

发展我国高等工程教育的探讨

从教育思想观念、体系、模式以及师资建设、人才培养等方面,提出正确发展我国高等工程教育的思路。     

加拿大工科院校学生课外实践能力培养途径初探

工科院校学生课外实践能力培养,是提升学生综合实践能力的重要组成部分。本文借鉴加拿大部分工科院校学生课外实践训练的多种途径,结合国内工科院校发展现状,从大力推动学科竞赛和创新实训基地建设、合理设置课外实践能力培养考核体系、充分挖掘课外实践能力培养资源、充分尊重学生课外实践活动成果等方面,针对性提出了加强工科学生课外实践能力培养的有效途径,以期为相关工科院校学生实践能力培养模式研究提供借鉴和参考。