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Educating Responsible Innovators-to-Be: Hands-on Participation with Biotechnology

Authors : Amalia Kallergi, Robert Zwijnenberg

Published in: EAI International Conference on Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Education

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Abstract

How does one go about educating responsible innovators? What are the skills and sensitivities that we wish to sharpen in our students, the responsible innovators of the future, so that they can respond to the needs of a complex and ever-conflicting society? And how do we do so in an engaging and effective manner? This paper advocates a humanities-informed approach to responsible innovation education and contributes a pedagogic stance that emphasizes experiential learning and hands-on participation. Given the domain of biotechnology, a booming industry defined by rapid technological developments and pending moral challenges, we examine DIY biology and contemporary art as a means to an embodied engagement with the ethical and societal concerns surrounding biotechnology. The paper documents educational activities and observations from a specific educational module, namely the course “Ethics, culture and biotechnology”, organized and taught by the authors as part of the higher education program Responsible Innovation.

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Footnotes
1
For a brief history of the major developments in engineering ethics education, see [7].
 
2
While strictly speaking an artist workshop (cf Sect. 4.2), we classify this activity as a DIY exercise due to the staging of the workshop, the form of participation assumed by the students and the straightforward nature of the activity.
 
3
For a short commentary on this activity, see [33] (in Dutch only).
 
4
While we have no means to specify which (out of the multiple) interactive activities are most appreciated, our informal evaluations suggest that both the DIY biology activities and the artist workshops make a lasting impression to the students.
 
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Metadata
Title
Educating Responsible Innovators-to-Be: Hands-on Participation with Biotechnology
Authors
Amalia Kallergi
Robert Zwijnenberg
Copyright Year
2019
Book
EAI International Conference on Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Education

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-02241-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-02242-6

Copyright Year: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02242-6_7