ETERC
Shanghai Engineering & Technology Education Research Center
Shanghai, China
Educational practice as research context
ETERC’s research questions have grown from sustained engagement with educational practice.
Questions emerging from practice
Earlier work remains part of this history—not rewritten through today’s theories, but preserved as part of the practice from which today’s questions emerged.
Engineering learning in authentic activity
ETERC is a Shanghai-based educational research institution working at the intersection of learning sciences and engineering education.
We investigate how engineering thinking develops through authentic engineering activity—and how learners may gradually develop ways of thinking, acting, valuing, and seeing themselves in relation to engineering.
ETERC investigates these questions through two related emerging research frameworks: EBLS — Engineering Becoming Learning Science and EBT — Engineering Becoming Theory.
Research, practice, evidence, revision
Research informs practice. Practice generates evidence. Evidence tests and revises research.
Research from Shanghai, in professional conversation
Shanghai Engineering & Technology Education Research Center
Shanghai, China
Research at the intersection of Learning Sciences × Engineering Education