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Department of Ethics Education

This Department offers courses in pedagogy, ethics, philosophy, and politics for the purpose of cultivating good moral teachers. Other fields such as philosophical anthropology, religion, and sociology are the interdisciplinary basis for ethics education.

The intellectual mission of this Department can be classified into three parts :

  1. Foundations of Ethics, which encompasses the history of ethics and core concepts in the philosophical study of ethics;
  2. Ethics in Action, which relates theory to practice in key domains of social life, including bioethics, business and political ethics, and ethics in the public sphere;
  3. Ethics in Education, which lets students prepare for careers as teachers.
Prospective teachers of ethics education must be trained in the subject matter, practiced in the arts of pedagogy, attuned to the needs of students, and astute to the interplay of theory and practice.

The courses include such issues as the integration of moral values education and civics within the academic curriculum, as well as appropriate and effective methods of classroom management and student discipline compatible with students’ moral growth. The main focuses of the courses are teaching methods, students’ moral development, moral autonomy, and the assessment of social and moral development.

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