Learning moral judgement in higher education

Autor: Gerald Collier
Rok vydání: 1993
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Zdroj: Studies in Higher Education. 18:287-297
ISSN: 1470-174X
0307-5079
DOI: 10.1080/03075079312331382221
Popis: The contemporary world is faced with many global problems, such as atmospheric pollution. The handling of these problems involves not only the assembling of established knowledge and technologies but diagnosing, and making due allowance for, powerful subjective influences. These latter involve subjective perceptions of the world around one and—especially—assumptions about values and about priorities among values, ‘values˚s being used in the sense of the driving motives of people's lives to which an element of obligation is attached. There would appear to be an urgent need, therefore, for education systems to include programmes which prepare students for recognising, and learning to think critically about, such subjective perceptions and value questions. To develop such insight, in a form which influences one's active professional judgement, the usual lecture courses are inadequate: the learning must have an experiential and indeed ‘existential˚s basis; it must be ‘felt in the bones˚s. The existen...
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