Article ID: CBB284147447

Metaphors of Change: Navigating a Revolution in Engineering Education (2021)

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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.

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Authors & Contributors
Lehr, Jane L.
Wylie, Caitlin Donahue
Thomas Scheffer
Wendy Newstetter
Megan E. Tomko
Stephen Secules
Concepts
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Education, engineering
Engineering
Development of technology; change in technology
Ethnography
Technology and gender
Time Periods
21st century
Modern
Places
Germany
United States
Norway
Denmark
Institutions
Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
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