Quelle place pour les enjeux environnementaux dans les formations d’ingénieurs en Algérie ? Le cas de l’École Nationale Polytechnique d’Alger

While environmental issues have become an essential part of contemporary engineering education in France and Europe, what is the situation in North African countries confronted even more brutally with the impacts of global warming? This paper proposes a study of engineering education in Algeria, and...

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Main Authors: Lydia Djennadi, Linda Gardelle, Mohamed Benguerna
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Les éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’Homme 2023-10-01
Series:Cahiers de la Recherche sur l'Education et les Savoirs
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cres/6508
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description While environmental issues have become an essential part of contemporary engineering education in France and Europe, what is the situation in North African countries confronted even more brutally with the impacts of global warming? This paper proposes a study of engineering education in Algeria, and the place reserved for environmental issues. It is based on an analysis of the training programs of the École Nationale Polytechnique of Algiers and on interviews conducted with teachers from 2018 to 2020. It shows how curricular production is carried out in a leading engineering school, by whom and with what debates. The study demonstrates some teacher autonomy, as they are not constrained by reference frameworks and prescriptions, but face other types of constraints in terms of institutional organization and resources. These teachers are introducing environmental courses into their programs, but in a way that is limited in relation to their training ambitions. They agree that there are a multiplicity of emergencies, the environmental emergency being only one of them.
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title Quelle place pour les enjeux environnementaux dans les formations d’ingénieurs en Algérie ? Le cas de l’École Nationale Polytechnique d’Alger
title_full Quelle place pour les enjeux environnementaux dans les formations d’ingénieurs en Algérie ? Le cas de l’École Nationale Polytechnique d’Alger
title_fullStr Quelle place pour les enjeux environnementaux dans les formations d’ingénieurs en Algérie ? Le cas de l’École Nationale Polytechnique d’Alger
title_full_unstemmed Quelle place pour les enjeux environnementaux dans les formations d’ingénieurs en Algérie ? Le cas de l’École Nationale Polytechnique d’Alger
title_short Quelle place pour les enjeux environnementaux dans les formations d’ingénieurs en Algérie ? Le cas de l’École Nationale Polytechnique d’Alger
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