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Professional socialisation in the engeneering curriculum: A comparison between the formal and experimental curriculum
Oprins, Erlijn (2022) Professional socialisation in the engeneering curriculum: A comparison between the formal and experimental curriculum.
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| Abstract: | Society is becoming increasingly dependent on technology, which results in an ongoing high demand for highly educated technical professionals. However, many STEM graduates decide to work in non-technical jobs. Having an underdeveloped professional identity contributes to this development. Therefore, it is important that STEM students develop their professional identity by gaining professional socialising experiences. This study focuses on the role of professional socialisation in the formal curriculum and the experiential curriculum. The formal curriculum is studied by performing a document analysis. The experiential curriculum is studied by conducting focus group interviews. As part of the analysis, the formal curriculum is compared to the experiential curriculum. The results of the formal curriculum revealed that all four study programmes included in this study offer professional socialising experiences on all four levels of engagement (i.e., knowledge acquisition, exposure, interaction, reflection). However, there are some differences between programmes. What stands out is that the university of applied sciences programmes offer more professional socialising experiences on the level of knowledge acquisition and interaction than the research university programmes. The analysis of the experiential curriculum provided a broader and richer view, which indicates that it is useful to research this aspect of the curriculum as well. Comparing the different curriculum domains indicated that there are discrepancies between the formal curriculum and the experiential curriculum. This study contributes to the literature and is valuable for engineering programmes at higher education institutions. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 70 social sciences in general, 81 education, teaching |
| Programme: | Educational Science and Technology MSc (60023) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/93560 |
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