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Foundations for Value Education in Engineering: The Indian Experience

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Field Value
 
Title Foundations for Value Education in Engineering: The Indian Experience
 
Creator GUPTA, A
 
Subject Skepticism about value education
The concept of 'Profession'
Paradigm shift in 'professional ethics'
Institutionalization of responsibility: Committed behavior
Student engagement through 'action-oriented' programmes
Convergence of plurality of motivation
 
Description The objective of this paper is to discuss some of the foundational issues centering around the question of integrating education in human values with professional engineering education: its necessity and justification. The paper looks at the efforts in 'tuning' the technical education system in India to the national goals in the various phases of curriculum development. The contribution of the engineering profession in national development and India's self-sufficiency is crucially linked with the institutionalization of expertise and the role of morality and responsibility. This linkage can be created through a proper understanding of the social role of the profession-what motivates the professionals and what makes professional life meaningful. Value education facilitates the process of moral maturity and the development of a 'holistic' mindset. This paper deals with the need to create such a mindset, the human values associated with it and gives examples of efforts to impart such education through 'action-oriented' programmes introduced in some institutes of engineering in India.
 
Publisher SPRINGER
 
Date 2016-01-14T12:28:40Z
2016-01-14T12:28:40Z
2015
 
Type Article
 
Identifier SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ETHICS, 21(2)479-504
1353-3452
1471-5546
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11948-014-9537-9
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/jspui/handle/100/17498
 
Language en