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Defining curriculum outcomes is essentially concerned with addressing the question of what skills, knowledge and attitudes are most useful to attain and for what purpose. This is of course a contested issue as it inevitably reflects views about the ‘good society’ and what are the ‘desirable’ attributes’ of people living in that society.
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Sale, D. (2014). Producing Curriculum Outcomes. In: The Challenge of Reframing Engineering Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4560-29-0_2
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