DISE Matters | Maria Berge, Anna Danielsson, Eva Silfver: "Engineering education: Knowledge and Identity Perspectives on Project Work"
Prof. Allison Gonsalves (Dept. of Integrated Studies in Education) is pleased to invite you to a presentation by visiting scholars:
- Maria Berge, Ume氓 University
- Anna Danielsson, Uppsala University
- Eva Silfver, Ume氓 University
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Engineering education: Knowledge and Identity Perspectives on Project Work
Engineering is a highly听acclaimed profession in society: if any structure needs to be built, engineers are the ones to be consulted. However, the idea of what an engineer is, is constantly under construction too. Engineering has become a more heterogeneous profession with increasing expectations on 鈥榮oft skills鈥�, such as team-work and creativity. Project work is one example of an educational practice introduced with the goal of developing such soft skills and moving learning outcomes beyond the mere acquisition of content knowledge, in order to better reflect authentic professional activities. The aim of our research project is to explore how project work re/produces engineers and engineering knowledge. In our presentation we will give examples of two sub-studies within the project: one focused on possibilities for learning in interaction during project work; and one focused on students鈥� gendered identity negotiations.
Monday, June 18th, 2018 |听听11 am-1 pm | Room 233, Education building, 3700 McTavish
A DISE MATTERS presentation
Coffee/Tea and snacks provided
听is a researcher at the Department of Science and Mathematics Education,听Ume氓 University. Her research interests include characteristics, learning possibilities and patterns of interaction that emerge when people learn science and technology together.
听is a Professor of Curriculum Studies at Uppsala University. Her research interests are centred around issues of identity, gender and power in relation to the teaching and learning of science.
is an Associate Professor at the department of Education, Ume氓 University, and has also long experience of teaching biology, chemistry and mathematics in high school. Eva鈥檚听research has spanned issues of race, ethnicity, gender, social class, ability and disability and has been underpinned by engagements听with post-structural thinking about power, the subject, space, and the political.听
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