Elements of the anthropological theory of didactics in the selection of contents in a course of fluid mechanics in engineering, a case study in Spanish universities

• Published in: SN applied sciences Vol. 4; no. 1; pp. 7 - 11
• Main Authors: Palencia, José Luis Díaz, Redondo, Antonio Naranjo, Caballero, Pedro Vivas
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01-01-2022; Springer Nature B.V; Springer
• Subjects: Anthropology; Applied and Technical Physics; Applied mathematics; Case studies; Case Study; Chemistry/Food Science; Content; Didacticism; Didactics; Discipline; Earth Sciences; Engineering; Engineering education; Engineers; Environment; Experts; Fluid mechanics; Knowledge; Materials Science; Mathematical analysis; Noosphere; Questionnaires; Schools; Science; Society; Students; Teachers; Teaching; Theory; Didactics; Noosphere; Questionnaire; Experts; Theory; Content; Anthropology; Institutions; Distance
• ISSN: 2523-3963; 2523-3971
• DOI: 10.1007/s42452-021-04894-w

The Anthropological Theory of Didactics has been applied to the field of didactics of mathematics with remarkable success. Fluid Mechanics is a discipline with a strong mathematical background, where mathematics is used for modeling the continuous nature. In addition, the Fluid Mechanics concepts are essential for the future engineer or scientist. For this reason, it is worth thinking whether the content that developed in engineering schools or science faculties are those demanded by the future professionals. The analysis has been done within the context of a case study framed in the Spanish noosphere, more particularly Universities and Companies. In this direction, the objective of this article is to know the institutional distance between the University and society as a demander of technologies based on Fluid Mechanics. To this end, the methodology based on the issuance of a questionnaire to experts focused on aspects such as present and emerging content associated with the Fluid Mechanics of an engineering degree is used. Note that the number of experts selected is reduced so as to consider the study as a sourcing for introducing expert thoughts on the fluid mechanics conception between university and companies. The results highlight the existence of an institutional distance between the University and the Enterprise (as a technology executor) in the conception of contents, thus establishing an area of potential improvement within the noosphere associated with fluid mechanics in Spain.
Highlights
Questionnaire to experts to understand the current institutional relations between University and Company in the Spanish system.
Application of the Anthropological Theory of Didactics (ATD) techniques to Fluid Mechanics.
Confirmation of an institutional distance between University and Companies in Fluid Mechanics conceptions.