Challenging practice traditions to embed education for sustainable development within the engineering curriculum

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dc.contributor.authorTrad, Sloan
dc.contributor.authorGoldsmith, Rosalie
dc.contributor.authorHadgraft, Roger
dc.contributor.authorGardner, Anne
dc.date.accessioned2021-08-06T12:11:46Z
dc.date.available2021-08-06T12:11:46Z
dc.date.issued2021-06-14
dc.description.abstractThere has never been a more pressing time than now for Engineering Education for Sustainable Development (EESD). However, Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) remains invisible in most Australian engineering curricula. A common narrative from engineering academics is that ESD is covered by someone else, elsewhere in the curriculum. A similar narrative prevails among 20 interviewed engineers working on an infrastructure project in regional Australia - it’s someone else’s responsibility. This paper builds on the authors’ previous work, which identified a striking resemblance between engineering perceptions of sustainability in an Australian university and on an infrastructure project. The Theory of Practice Architectures (TPA) is used as a conceptual framework to examine the sayings, doings and relatings of 20 engineers and 10 engineering academics interviewed as part of this study. The study found that practice traditions, including masculinity, hierarchical workplaces, and an emphasis on technical competence, constrain sustainability integration in engineering curriculum and in engineering practice. These practice traditions also enable the continuation of narrowly defined engineering work practices, which resist the incorporation of a more holistic approach. Changing practice traditions is not an easy task; however, it is a necessary first step to incorporating ESD within the engineering curriculum.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationTrad, S., Goldsmith, R., Hadgraft, R. and Gardner A. (2021) ‘Challenging practice traditions to embed education for sustainable development within the engineering curriculum’, EESD2021: Proceedings of the 10th Engineering Education for Sustainable Development Conference, 'Building Flourishing Communities', University College Cork, Ireland, 14-16 June.en
dc.identifier.endpage9en
dc.identifier.issn2737-7741
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/11690
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherUniversity College Corken
dc.relation.ispartofEESD2021: Proceedings of the 10th Engineering Education for Sustainable Development Conference
dc.relation.urihttps://www.eesd2020.org/
dc.relation.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10468/11459
dc.rights© 2021, the Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licenseen
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectEngineering educationen
dc.subjectEESDen
dc.subjectSustainable developmenten
dc.subjectTheory of Practice Architectures (TPA)en
dc.titleChallenging practice traditions to embed education for sustainable development within the engineering curriculumen
dc.typeConference itemen
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