"New Engineering Education" in China: A National Technological Imaginary of the Chinese Dream

Autor/inn/en	Koh, Aaron; Zhuang, Tengteng
Titel	"New Engineering Education" in China: A National Technological Imaginary of the Chinese Dream
Quelle	In: Asia Pacific Education Review, 22 (2021) 1, S.31-40 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Zhuang, Tengteng)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1598-1037
DOI	10.1007/s12564-020-09651-z
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Engineering Education; Educational Change; Higher Education; Nationalism; Imagination; Discourse Analysis; Educational Development; Educational Policy; Policy Analysis; Politics of Education; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Ingenieurausbildung; Bildungsreform; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Nationalismus; Diskursanalyse; Bildungsentwicklung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Politikfeldanalyse; Educational policy
Abstract	This paper examines the "imaginaries" taking place in New Engineering Education (NEE). The NEE is the most recent reform of the engineering education sector in China and is used to interrogate the more encompassing backdrop of the country's national imaginary, the "Chinese Dream." Further, this paper analyzes three important policy documents that constitute the blueprint of the NEE. Drawing on Charles Taylor's concept of the "social imaginary" and using critical discourse analysis, a close analysis of the discursive construction of the technological and national elements in the policy texts is carried out. This combinatory theoretical and analytical framework is used to examine how a normative vision and ideology of the development of engineering education is constructed as taking a "new" direction. In undertaking this policy analysis, this paper demonstrates how a rising power is revolutionizing its engineering education as a resource, coupled with the ideological "social (national) imagination" of the Chinese Dream, to extend its power and geopolitical positioning in a competitive and globalized economy. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01