Education Crossing Borders by Dara R. Fisher

Author:Dara R. Fisher [Fisher, Dara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: International higher education; global higher education; cross-border higher education; cross border higher education; globalization of education; globalisation of education; higher education; Singapore; Singapore University of Technology and Design; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; MIT; SUTD; engineering education; education policy; Singapore education; organizational ethnography; organisational ethnography; ethnography; organizational behavior; organisational behaviour
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2020-07-17T00:00:00+00:00

SUTD students are very different than MIT students. There are no biology majors and . . . there are no science majors. And so you’re essentially teaching biology to engineers and architects. . . . So, there was an attempt to essentially explain to them why—explain to these, you know, ostensible, future engineers and architects—why biology is important. And I felt that that really missed the boat.

According to the same faculty member, SUTD’s faculty struggled as they tried to explain this rationale to students:

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