Document Type
Conference Paper
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Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence
Abstract
"Ontology...acts as both gatekeeper and bouncer for methodology” (Archer 1995: 22). This exploratory paper, through a focus on the relationship between structure and agency, examines the underlying social ontologies informing the teaching, and researching of the teaching, of engineering ethics. It argues that current approaches are deficient and that Critical Realism can provide the basis for a more robust and inclusive research agenda for understanding engineering practice and the teaching of engineering ethics.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21427/D7WV4D
Recommended Citation
Conlon, E. (2015) Engineering ethics:Ontology and politics. Research in Engineering Education Symposium, Dublin, July 2015
Publication Details
Paper presented at Research in Engineering Education Symposium, Dublin, July 2015.