Navigating Bioethical Waters: Two Pilot Projects in Problem-Based Learning for Future Bioscience and Biotechnology Professionals
| Autor: | Aaron D. Levine, Laura Palucki Blake, Robert Kirkman, Roberta M. Berry, Matthew J. Drake |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Health (social science)
Science Pilot Projects 0603 philosophy ethics and religion Ethics Professional Engineering Management of Technology and Innovation Humans Sociology Set (psychology) Philosophy of science Social Responsibility ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION business.industry Health Policy 05 social sciences 050301 education 06 humanities and the arts Bioethics Problem-Based Learning Professional responsibility Test (assessment) Biotechnology Issues ethics and legal aspects Problem-based learning Work (electrical) Engineering ethics 060301 applied ethics business 0503 education Social responsibility |
| Zdroj: | Science and engineering ethics. 22(6) |
| ISSN: | 1471-5546 |
| Popis: | We believe that the professional responsibility of bioscience and biotechnology professionals includes a social responsibility to contribute to the resolution of ethically fraught policy problems generated by their work. It follows that educators have a professional responsibility to prepare future professionals to discharge this responsibility. This essay discusses two pilot projects in ethics pedagogy focused on particularly challenging policy problems, which we call “fractious problems”. The projects aimed to advance future professionals’ acquisition of “fractious problem navigational” skills, a set of skills designed to enable broad and deep understanding of fractious problems and the design of good policy resolutions for them. A secondary objective was to enhance future professionals’ motivation to apply these skills to help their communities resolve these problems. The projects employed “problem based learning” courses to advance these learning objectives. A new assessment instrument, “Skills for Science/Engineering Ethics Test” (SkillSET), was designed and administered to measure the success of the courses in doing so. This essay first discusses the rationale for the pilot projects, and then describes the design of the pilot courses and presents the results of our assessment using SkillSET in the first pilot project and the revised SkillSET 2.0 in the second pilot project. The essay concludes with discussion of observations and results. |
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