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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Faure, Lachell
• Paisley, Darren
• Tabas, Brad
• Bayer, Ellen
• Finley, Judson Byrd

Titel

Learning to Think like a Factory

Ist Teil von

• Ecopedagogies, 2023, p.131-142

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This chapter lays out the theory and the pedagogical practice of an environmental awareness course that the authors teach to engineering students at the ENSTA Bretagne. The particular focus of the chapter is to show how work-based education supplemented by classroom teaching bearing on the idea of the circular economy can foster ecological awareness and care even among students working in industrial contexts that are anything but traditionally green. The text, and particularly its articulation of theory with practice, aims to facilitate the adaptation of similar approaches to other institutional ecosystems. This chapter lays out the theory and the pedagogical practice of an environmental awareness course that the authors teach to engineering students at the ENSTA Bretagne. It examines how work-based education supplemented by classroom teaching bearing on the idea of the circular economy can foster ecological awareness and care even among students working in industrial contexts that are anything but traditionally green. In his 1964 classic The Machine in the Garden, MIT professor Leo Marx explored the ways in which the symbols of the machine and the garden crystallized the conflicts between industrialization and its arcadian or environmentalist enemies over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Circular Economy Project, which might be categorized as what a recent MIT report calls "work-based learning," includes a series of classes, fieldwork, and reporting activities and is taught to teams of apprentice engineers-engineering students who alternate between periods at our institution and periods in company.