Mutual Capacity Building through North-South Collaboration Using Challenge-Driven Education

QC 20200204
The urgent need for actions in the light of the global challenges motivates international policy to define roadmaps for education on all levels to step forward and contribute with new knowledge and competencies. Challenge-Driven Education (CDE) is described as an education for Sustainable Development (ESD) approach, which aims to prepare students to work with global challenges and to bring value to society by direct impact. This paper describes, evaluates and discusses a three-year participatory implementation project of Challenge-driven education (CDE) within the engineering education at the University of Dar es Salam, UDSM, which has been carried out in collaboration with the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH in Stockholm. Conclusions are drawn on crucial aspects for engineering education change through the lens of Activity Theory (AT), where CDE is brought forward as a motivating ESD initiative for engineering faculty and students. Furthermore participatory co-creation is notably useful as it aims to embrace social values among the participants. Also, traditional organizational structures will need to be continuously negotiated in the light of the integration of more open-ended approaches in education.

Rosén, AndersKTH,Farkost och flyg(Swepub:kth)u1mppuzc (author)
Mwase, ChristineUniv Dar Es Salaam, Coll Informat & Commun Technol, POB 35091, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. (author)
Lantz, Ann,1958-KTH,Medieteknik och interaktionsdesign, MID(Swepub:kth)u1u71eoc (author)
Gumaelius, Lena,1967-KTH,Lärande(Swepub:kth)u10myqav (author)
Shayo, EvaUniv Dar Es Salaam, Coll Informat & Commun Technol, POB 35091, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. (author)
Lujara, SuzanUniv Dar Es Salaam, Coll Informat & Commun Technol, POB 35091, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. (author)
Mvungi, NereyUniv Dar Es Salaam, Coll Informat & Commun Technol, POB 35091, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. (author)
KTHLärande (creator_code:org_t)

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