Document Type
Article
Rights
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence
Disciplines
2. ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
Abstract
Our paper aims to explore the effectiveness of a constructivist approach to the teaching of engineering ethics through case studies, by putting forward a contextualization of the much discussed case study “Cutting Road Side Trees” (Pritchard, 1992) in light of the constructivist frame suggested by Jonassen (1999). First, we briefly analyse how the use of case studies for the teaching of engineering ethics eludes the complexity of the engineering professional environment before arguing that constructivism is a learning theory that can help to address this complexity. The final section proposes a constructivist reworking of the case method in a manner that aims to correct the deficiencies identified, followed by a discussion of the results of applying the contextualized exercise to First Year group of engineering students.
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73210-7_23
Recommended Citation
Martin, Diana & Conlon, Edward & Bowe, Brian. (2018). A Constructivist Approach to the use of Case Studies in teaching Engineering Ethics. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. 715. 193-201. 10.1007/978-3-319-73210-7_23.