Higher Education Academy Engineering Subject Centre

These workshops for engineering lecturers aim to introduce and explore, curricula content, ways of thinking, and pedagogical and assessment approaches which will facilitate engineering students’ abilities in the following areas:

• develop respect for differences in culture, customs, traditions and how societies are organised and governed
• question the notion of universal human rights
• appreciate the role of engineering in supporting human rights
• question the relationship between diversity, human rights and local culture
• appreciate the different levels of analysis required (local, national, international)
• appreciate and respect indigenous and other forms of knowledge

Workshop 1: Diversity and Rights in Engineering Practice reading list

1. Quigly, C. (2009) Globalization and Science Education: The Implications for Indigenous Knowledge Systems. International Education Studies 2(1) 76-88.  http://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ies/article/viewFile/304/367
2. Kulig, J.C., Duke, M., Solowoniuk, J.1, Weaselfat, R., Shade, C. Lamb, M., Wojtowicz, B., (2010) Aboriginal science symposium: enabling Aboriginal student success in post-secondary institutions.  The International Electronic Journal of Rural and Remote Health Research, Education, Practice and Policy, Conference Report, January 2010. http://www.rrh.org.au/publishedarticles/article_print_1324.pdf
3. Canadian Council on Learning (2007) Lessons in Learning: The cultural divide in science education for Aboriginal learners.  http://www.ccl-cca.ca/pdfs/LessonsInLearning/Feb-01-07-The-cultural-divide-in-science.pdf
4. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml
5. McLaughlin, E. (2005) Skeletons in the Human Rights Cupboard: A Critical Theoretical Critique of Equality of Opportunity and Human Rights. 
6. Zoli, C., Bhatia, S., Davidson, V., Rusch, K., Engineering: Women and Leadership, Morgan and Claypool 2008
7. Riley, D., Engineering and Social Justice Morgan and Claypool 2008
8. Mitcham, C and Munoz, D., Humanitarian Engineering, Morgan and Claypool, 2010