Construction and Practice of a Triple Helix Model for Cultivating Technological Ethics Literacy in Emerging Engineering Talents in Higher Vocational Education

Yi Feng

doi:10.70088/mr0tdj92

Authors

Yi Feng Hunan Electrical College of Technology, Xiangtan, Hunan, China Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.70088/mr0tdj92

Keywords:

triple helix model, emerging engineering talents, technological ethics literacy, higher vocational education, values-education-entrepreneurship integration

Abstract

With the rapid development of disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence, technological ethics literacy has become a core competency for emerging engineering talents. However, higher vocational engineering education currently faces structural contradictions such as emphasizing technology over ethics and valuing knowledge over innovation. The three elements of values education, professional education, and innovation and entrepreneurship education are often separated, leading to difficulties in cultivating students' technological ethics literacy. Based on the Triple Helix theory, this study constructs a deeply integrated model for cultivating technological ethics literacy through values guidance, knowledge transmission, and capability building. The model reveals the spiral and synergistic evolution mechanism among these three elements, with values anchoring, knowledge embedding, and capability transformation as its core logic. Through three pathways of curriculum system reconstruction, teaching scenario reengineering, and evaluation mechanism innovation, the model achieves deep coupling of values education, professional education, and innovation and entrepreneurship education. This research provides a theoretical framework and practical paradigm for cultivating technological ethics literacy in emerging engineering talents within higher vocational institutions.

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