Teaching ethics and critical thinking in contemporary schools

Bojan Borstner (Author), Smiljana Gartner (Author)

Abstract

Basic ethical questions, dilemmas and especially decisions do not only affect the life of an individual but can also affect lives of others. In some professional ethics, where decisions about a person's life or death are made, decisions can even be irreversible. In this contribution three ways of deciding by highlighting critical, and reflective decision-making or systematic thought process as the most effective method in ethics have been pointed out. Therefore, taking ethics as a critically reflective morality highlights the fact that we can talk about ethical exploration, so ethics is a process of thinking, not a set of established answers that need only to be passively accepted. It could be concluded that the study of and practice in, evaluating arguments and evidence (moral decision making) via critical thinking as well as using other important skills (raising questions according to Blooms taxonomy and doing a lot of case studies) is the best way to achieve the most fundamental goal in teaching an ethical course -- becoming a better person. And is therefore something that should be in every curriculum.

Keywords

kritično mišljenje;avtoriteta;etika;odločanje;intuicija;pouk etike;ne zaključna dela;authority;critical thinking;ethics;teaching ethics;decision making;intuitions;

Data

Language:	English
Year of publishing:	2014
Typology:	1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:	UM FF - Faculty of Arts
UDC:	17.02
COBISS:	20941576
ISSN:	1822-7864
Views:	924
Downloads:	127
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Other data

Secondary language:	Slovenian
Secondary keywords:	kritično mišljenje;avtoriteta;etika;odločanje;intuicija;pouk etike;
URN:	URN:SI:UM:
Type (COBISS):	Article
Pages:	Str. 9-17
ID:	10890603