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The Phenomenon of “Social Responsibility” as a Construct of the Humanitarian Educational Ecosystem for the Training of Future Engineers: Perspectives, Forms, Approaches

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The World of Games: Technologies for Experimenting, Thinking, Learning (PCSF 2023)

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The paper considers the results of a preliminary study conducted among the first-year students (N = 106) enrolled in various technical educational programs at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. The study was designed to achieve three goals. The first goal was to find out the growing role of the phenomenon of “social responsibility” in the changing situation of the ongoing industrial and digital revolution and its impact on humanity as a whole and on everyday life of everyone. The second goal was to find out the respondents’ opinions and interpretations of the phenomenon of “social responsibility’ and to compare the answers of Russian and American students to analyze whether there is any difference in understanding this social issue and whether they are ready to except this responsibility on the personal level. The data were obtained from the students’ answers to the questionnaire. In general, the study revealed a not very high level of understanding of the investigated phenomenon, but we observed some inconsistency in its understanding by Russian and American students, especially in personal responsibility. And the third goal was to develop some new approaches and forms that appear in the modern educational ecosystem, integrating humanities and technical components of higher education, considering gamification as one of the innovative tools to stimulate students’ active participation and transform their perception and practice of social responsibility. The new concept of future engineers’ social responsibility formation in the context of a humanitarian educational ecosystem opens additional opportunities in practical and theoretical areas of modern education, has a high social significance, since it allows conceptually and practically solving the issue of developing unified approaches to the implementation of social responsibility formation tasks, which is extremely important both for existing and for future generations.

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  1. Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Polytechnicheskaya, 29, 195251, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Nadezhda Almazova, Liudmila Khalyapina, Ivan Kolomeytsev, Olga Noskova & Ekaterina Shostak

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Almazova, N., Khalyapina, L., Kolomeytsev, I., Noskova, O., Shostak, E. (2023). The Phenomenon of “Social Responsibility” as a Construct of the Humanitarian Educational Ecosystem for the Training of Future Engineers: Perspectives, Forms, Approaches. In: Bylieva, D., Nordmann, A. (eds) The World of Games: Technologies for Experimenting, Thinking, Learning. PCSF 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 829. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48016-4_9

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