Open AccessEnseñanza de la ética en programas de pregrado de ingeniería: el caso del Tecnológico Nacional de México
Author(s) -
Jorge Alberto Olayo Valles,
Estrella Evelyn Armenta Verdugo,
Zenia Isabel Castro Borunda,
María Azucena Caro Dueñas
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
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Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1665-0441
DOI - 10.35197/rx.15.05.2019.06.jo
Subject(s) - subject (documents) , boom , sociology , work (physics) , political science , humanities , pedagogy , philosophy , library science , engineering , computer science , mechanical engineering , environmental engineering
Considering the huge boom that the integration of ethical notions in college education has had in universities around the world, this work is a research about this process in Mexico’s National Tech (TecNM). It specifically looks into the training of teachers who teach the Ethics Workshop subject in the TecNM, given its traditional vocation to train almost exclusively engineers. Through a nationwide survey of the areas responsible for assigning teachers who teachthe subject in question, it turns out that only 68% of these teachers have a related profile or have been trained to teach the Ethics Workshop. This shows that it is necessary to implement some strategy to improve the training of these teachers, and thereby reaffirm the importance of integrating ethical notions in the training of engineering students of the TecNM.