%0 Journal Article
%T Sustainable Development and Diversifying Competencies Curricula
%+ Formation et apprentissages professionnels (FoAP)
%+ Département Sciences Humaines et Sociales ENSTA Bretagne (ENSTA Bretagne_SHS)
%A Tabas, Brad, Samuel
%A Kövesi, Klara
%< avec comité de lecture
%@ 1587-8694
%J Információs Társadalom [Information Society]
%I Gondolat Kiado
%V 20
%N 2
%8 2020-10-20
%D 2020
%R 10.22503/inftars.XX.2020.2.8
%K sustainability education
%K complexity
%K diversity
%K curriculum theory
%K media studies approaches to curricula
%K competence-based education
%Z Humanities and Social Sciences/Education
%Z Humanities and Social Sciences
%Z Environmental Sciences/Environmental and Society
%Z Environmental Sciences/Environmental EngineeringJournal articles
%X This paper explores the question how to approach thinking about curriculum construction for European engineering schools in the age of sustainable development. We present a theoretical argument that curriculum thinkers need to broaden their focus from the "restricted competences" paradigm (RCP) in curriculum thinking to consider how to make curricula within a diversifying competences paradigm (DCP). We claim that the best response to the challenge of sustainability is to produce more skill-diversity among engineers while simultaneously training engineers to make the most of this diversity. We support this claim with two arguments. First, we explore the problem-solving power of diversely skilled collectives, suggesting that this increases relative to homogenous collectives when confronting complex problems. Then we show that sustainable development is not only a complex problem, but an extremely complex or wicked problem. Based on these two conclusions, we propose a mixed-medium curricular model which illustrates how engineering schools might be reformed in order to produce greater student competence diversification.
%G English
%2 https://hal-ensta-bretagne.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03000959/document
%2 https://hal-ensta-bretagne.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03000959/file/inftars.XX.2020.2.8.pdf
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%U https://hal-ensta-bretagne.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03000959
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