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member are not agreed to by other members who find the implications
of the proposed change not acceptable from their own design
perspectives (Peng, 1999).
2.2 Approaches to Collaboration Research
2.2.1 Educational Approaches
Professionalism is one of the major obstacles to effective collaboration
between architects and building design engineers. Professionalism is
not simply a collection of knowledge and practices, but also value
systems of the professionals which guide their objectives and
processes. This type of socialization is largely due to the fragmented
education of the design professionals. Newer educational approaches
aim to address this fragmentation and to propose ways to overcome it.
Some approaches claim that architects and engineers need to be
educated together so they can learn how to work better together
(Wheeler, 1998). However, this solution seems to be impractical due to
the huge and ever growing amount of knowledge in each profession. It
is more reasonable to sensitize students to the issues, objectives, and
concerns of the other discipline (Taşlı, 2001a). There are several
attempts to implement interdisciplinary courses for architecture and
engineering students and there is evidence that such courses provide
students valuable insight of the value systems used by their peers
(Jackson, 1997; Chinowsky and Robinson, 1995). Pultar (1999) claims
that it might be useful to give a general design education to architecture
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