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Course description of EDUC-E-409 [version française]

Title

Ethics and education



Lecturer

Mme Sabine KAHN



Prerequisites

None



Objective

1) Introduce students to the specificity of an ethical approach in education, by characterizing a strictly scientific approach (which attempts to evacuate the positions of value) and a teaching approach (which attempt to effectiveness). 2) Provide students different theories and concepts that allow them, in relation with the situations encountered in education, to raise ethical problems



Contents

 Ethics, morals, professional ethics  Ethical approach of the education problem  Ethics and education: the ethics sense of compulsory education, ethics and educational policies  The teacher/student relationship from an ethical point of view: the educability postulate and respect of the others, taking into account the uniqueness of each student; ethical involvement of the didactic choices; ethical approach of the assessment



Campus and term(s)

Campus du Solbosch, 1st term



Teaching methods

Courses and interactions with students



Assessment

Students will have the choice between:  Written exam with open questions  Written work consisting in the analysis of a real incident in a teaching situation, which the student has been a witness or an actor and posing an ethical problem



ECTS

total: 2 ECTS (théorie: 1, travaux personnels: 1)

The ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) credit is a measure of the student workload for each activity associated with a course. Conventionally, one ECTS credit represents 24h of work.


Course thaught in

Académie universitaire Wallonie-Bruxelles:


EDUC-E-409

PEDA6: master complémentaire en pédagogie universitaire et de l'enseignement supérieur - année unique (compulsory)





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