Project Description
Engineering education increasingly faces the challenge of embedding ethical considerations within technical
training. Ethics of care—emphasising relational interdependence—aligns closely with the engineering design
process and offers a transformative lens for curricular integration. Yet its integration in engineering remains
at an early stage. This preregistered scoping review maps and critically appraises the academic literature that
explicitly invokes care ethics in undergraduate and graduate engineering education.
Specifically, we aim to (1) identify key themes, concepts, theories, and research approaches; (2) pinpoint gaps
in topics, populations, and methodologies; (3) summarise documented student-level outcomes (e.g., changes in
attitudes, empathy, relational skills, ethical decision-making, ecological responsiveness) arising from
care-informed curricular and pedagogical activities; and (4) distil reported implementation barriers and
enabling strategies used to embed care ethics in engineering education.
The synthesis will generate a conceptual map of care-ethics work in engineering education and practical
guidance for integrating care into courses, projects, and assessment.
Team
- Vladislav Krivoshchekov, [email protected]
- Mary Nolan
- Sofía Durán
- Jie Gao, [email protected]
- Roland Tormey, [email protected]
Dates and Funding
- Start date
- 01.04.2025
- End date
- 31.03.2027
- Funding
- SNSF