DocumentCode
3482635
Title
Work in progress - continuing study of curiosity in the education of the engineer
Author
Healy, Tim
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Santa Clara Univ., CA
fYear
2005
fDate
19-22 Oct. 2005
Lastpage
7
Abstract
This paper continues a study of the role of curiosity in the education of the engineer, expanding on a study first reported at FIE2004. New material from teaching and learning theory discusses the role of intellectual development of students, as well as their need to reject absolute knowing, and learn to move effectively back and forth between real-world experiences and models of reality. It is argued that curiosity flows more naturally from a dialectic that involves both rational and intuitive learning
Keywords
cognition; engineering education; teaching; engineering education; intuitive learning; learning theory; rational learning; students intellectual development; teaching; Cognition; Context; Continuing education; Uncertainty; Cognition; curiosity; intuitive learning; rational learning; teaching and learning;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Frontiers in Education, 2005. FIE '05. Proceedings 35th Annual Conference
Conference_Location
Indianopolis, IN
ISSN
0190-5848
Print_ISBN
0-7803-9077-6
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/FIE.2005.1612091
Filename
1612091
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