Engineering and Social Justice (Synthesis Lectures on Engineers, Technology and Society) - Softcover
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The profession of engineering in the United States has historically served the status quo, feeding an ever-expanding materialistic and militaristic culture, remaining relatively unresponsive to public concerns, and without significant pressure for change from within. This book calls upon engineers to cultivate a passion for social justice and peace and to develop the skill and knowledge set needed to take practical action for change within the profession. Because many engineers do not receive education and training that support the kinds of critical thinking, reflective decision-making, and effective action necessary to achieve social change, engineers concerned with social justice can feel powerless and isolated as they remain complicit. Utilizing techniques from radical pedagogies of liberation and other movements for social justice, this book presents a roadmap for engineers to become empowered and engage one another in a process of learning and action for social justice and peace. Table of contents: What Do we Mean by Social Justice? / Mindsets in Engineering / Engineering and Social Injustice / Toward a More Socially Just Engineering / Turning Knowledge into Action: Strategies for Change / Parting Lessons for the Continuing Struggle
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Caroline Baillie is chair of engineering education in the Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics at the University of Western Australia. She cofounded the global Engineering and Social Justice network and her not-for-profit organization Waste for Life works to create poverty-reducing solutions to environmental issues. Alice Pawley is an assistant professor in the School of Engineering Education and an affiliate faculty member in the Women's Studies Program at Purdue University. Donna Riley is associate professor and a founding faculty member in the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College, the first accredited engineering program at a U.S. women's college.
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