Faculty development in engineering colleges in Mainland China: The humanities perspective

Author

Huang, Hong ; Li, Xiaoxiang ; Kuang, Yinghui

Author_Institution

Center for Fac. Dev., Southeast Univ., Nanjing, China

fYear

2012

fDate

20-23 Aug. 2012

Abstract

Faculty development (FD) is a relatively young and under-developed field of study in China. However, faculty development is essential to higher engineering education development. Faculty´s pedagogy have a strong impact on shaping the way students looking at the world. This study endeavors to explore the humanities characteristics of faculty development in its current context in engineering colleges in China. The pedagogical tradition and moral background and faculty evaluation system have been discussed in order to give a humanities explanation of the situation of faculty development in China.

Keywords

educational institutions; engineering education; humanities; Mainland China; engineering college; engineering education development; faculty development; faculty evaluation system; faculty pedagogy; humanities perspective; moral background; pedagogical tradition; Context; Educational institutions; Engineering education; Knowledge engineering; Technological innovation; Training; engineering education; evaluation system; faculty development; humanities perspective; pedagogy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE), 2012 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2417-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-2416-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TALE.2012.6360342

Filename

6360342