Ethical reflection or critical thinking? Overlapping competencies in engineering ethics education

Marin, L.

Ethical reflection or critical thinking? Overlapping competencies in engineering ethics education

Title

Ethical reflection or critical thinking? Overlapping competencies in engineering ethics education

Author

Marin, L. (TU Delft Ethics & Philosophy of Technology)

Contributor

van der Veen, Jan (editor)
van Hattum-Janssen, Natascha (editor)
Järvinen, Hannu-Matti (editor)

Date

2020

Abstract

Ethical reflection is considered to be an important competency for engineering ethics education. However it has no clear definition, which makes it difficult to effectively incorporate it into engineering ethics education. This paper proposes an operationalisation of ethical reflection into four learning goals which can help educators explicitly and systematically assess ethical reflection when using case-based exercises in the engineering ethics classroom. The four components were adapted from established educational approaches for critical thinking and then expanded to apply to normative propositions, the specific domain of ethical reflection.

Subject

Critical Thinking
case-based exercises
Engineering ethics
ethical reflection

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ISBN

978-2-87352-020-5

Source

Engaging Engineering Education: Book of Abstracts, SEFI 48th Annual Conference

Event

48th SEFI Annual Conference (Online), 2020-09-20 → 2020-09-24, Online hosted by University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands

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