Teaching Risk Management and Safety as a Tool for Supporting Sustainable Development - A Curriculum Development

• Authors: Mohammad Shahriari
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Training of engineers as one of the main factors for implementing sustainability in industry is a key task. Due to this fact, the courses given in Chalmers should be adapted to the goal of sustainability. This could not be gained without integrating of risk assessment, as a tool of loss prevention, into different course curricula. To meet the demands, a course entitled "Risk Management and Safety" is offered two times a year to pre-service teachers that study in Chalmers master and doctoral programmes. This paper is concerned with presenting a method for developing a course curriculum including designing, control and evaluation of the projects as an essential part of the course. Industrial patterns have an important role especially in designing and evaluating the projects. The learning outcomes and the work efficiency are also controlled and evaluated through a questionnaire and personal interviews.

Keywords

EN

course development; curriculum development; sustainability; risk management; teaching

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 62-71

Dates

published

2011-01-01

online

2011-07-12

Contributors

author

Mohammad Shahriari

• Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10099-011-0005-1