How do we teach?: a practical guide for engineering educators

Abstract

For centuries, engineering has been taught based on diverse educational paradigms, with a remarkable predominance oftraditional approaches. During the last decades, new educational paradigms and didactic strategies have arisen.Nevertheless, it was not always the case that engineering educators had a clear understanding of a paradigm or a strategybeing used. Thus, after an exhaustive review of literature, this paper presents a guide for engineering educators that showshow the multiple didactic strategies are classified within the four educational paradigms found in engineering education(positivism, constructivism, socio-critical and communicative-critical).