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Author:   Anders Buch ,  Steen Hyldgaard Christensen
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Volume:   49
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9783031865800

ISBN 10:   3031865804
Pages:   235
Publication Date:   21 May 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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1. Introduction: Contesting Narrow Conceptions of Engineering Education and Practice through the Concept of Bildung.- Part I.  Engineers’ and Technological Experts’ Need for Bildung.- 2. Rethinking Engineering Professionalism through the Concept of Bildung.- 3. Bildung under Conditions of Engineered Destruction.- 4. Bildung, Destruction, and Reconstruction – a Rejoinder to Carl Mitcham.- 5. From the Individual to the Collective Dimension of Bildung in Engineering Education through Challenge Based Learning.- 6. Thinking about Engineering Education: Between Bildung and Citizenship.- Part II.  Intersections between Bildung and Efforts to Broaden Engineering Education.- 7. Bildung: Conformity or Transformation.- 8. Bildung, and how that Concept Sits with Traditional Notions of Teaching Students ""how to think"" like Engineers.- 9. Appropriateness and Value: Building Critical-Reflexivity and Socio-Political Competency Amongst Undergraduate Engineers in a Third-Year Design Course.- 10. Usefulness and Bildung: Engaging Students in a Bildung-oriented Engineering Education.- Part III.  Bildung in Engineering across Cultural Contexts.- 11. Bildung and Education for Engineering Practice.- 12. Developing A Self-Cultivation Theory for Engineering Education: A Confucian Perspective.- 13. Humanities and Engineering Education for Gaston Berger from the Perspective of Bildung.- 14. Conclusion: Bildung for Engineering Futures.

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Steen Hyldgaard Christensen. MA in Danish Language and Literature and the History of Ideas from Aarhus University. He holds a PhD in research on engineering education from Aalborg University. Until 2014, he was a senior lecturer at Aarhus University. Since 2014, he is an adjunct associate professor at Aalborg University. He is initiator, coordinator, lead editor, and co-author of several edited volumes on engineering education, and epistemology; five of them published in the Springer Nature POET series edited by Pieter Vermaas. He has published articles on engineering epistemology, culture, and higher education. His current research interests are dynamics in higher education restructuring, and research initiatives to broadening engineering education. Anders Buch. Docent and head of research program in Centre for Quality of Education, Profession Policy & Practice at VIA University College, Denmark. His empirical research area is focused on professions, professionalism, and technological expert cultures, and his theoretical approach is primarily inspired by Science & Technology Studies, Practice Theory, and classical American Pragmatism. He has published articles and books on knowledge, learning, education, professionalism, and the professional development of engineers. Since 2016 he has served as chief editor of Nordic Journal for Working Life Studies and he has been affiliated with Jönköping University as guest researcher since 2021.

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