Engineering Education for Social Justice by Juan Lucena

Author:Juan Lucena
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

The possibility of a dialogue between engineering and anthropology is a useful example of how it may be difficult, but nonetheless possible, to cross disciplinary boundaries and face key thresholds. We acknowledge that the whole notion of ‘disciplines’ as they are constituted in universities are historical constructions and the boundaries between them may no longer be relevant (Wallerstein 2003). Disciplines are not, as Wallerstein says, homogenous: anthropology is not a unified discipline and engineering itself covers many diverse kinds of knowledge and practice. Nonetheless, the labels which we have used to typify each discipline – reiterated below – are a useful shorthand to describe the dominant ‘thought style’ of each. By doing so, the two authors were able to uncover and make more explicit some of the inherent assumptions behind the threshold concepts which students would need to understand in order to grasp the complexities of social justice.

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