Course: Professional ethics

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Course title Professional ethics
Course code KPG/YPROF
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course unspecified
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction English
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Šmelová Eva, prof. PhDr. Ph.D.
  • Andrysová Pavla, PhDr. Ph.D.
  • Antlová Adéla, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Subject structure: Professional ethics - introduction Values formation Values education Aim of moral development Moral development theories Teachers moral dilemmas

Learning activities and teaching methods
Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the subject The purpose of this course is to draw attention to the importance of professional ethics in a pedagogue´s profession, to focus on selected problems of a pedagogue´s professional ethics. Related to this is another goal, which is to provide space for sharing your experience. Students lack time to discuss it with someone else and compare it to what is written in literature. After the course, students will be able to define the basic terms connected with ethics, explain the importance of value education, identify the most important values the school should develop in learners, prepare a teaching plan aiming at certain value development, identify the most important theories of moral development and identify the aim of moral development.

Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance

Requirements: Students self study the given texts, answer relevant questions and finish the given tasks. During the class students share, comment and evaluate the responses, participate in discussion and solve given problems.
Recommended literature
  • Dewey, John (1916). Democracy and Education. Champaign, Ill.: Project Gutenberg..
  • Fenner, David E. (ed.) (1998). Ethics in Education. Routledge.
  • Kenneth A. Strike, Jonas F. Soltis (1998). The ethics of teaching. New York : Teachers College Press..
  • Killen, Melanie, Smetana, Judith G. (Eds.) (2006. Handbook of moral development /Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.
  • Kohlberg Lawrence (1984. The Psychology of Moral Development: The Nature and Validity of Moral Stages (Essays on Moral Development, Volume 2) HarperCollins Publishers.
  • Levinson, Meira, Fay, Jacob (2016). Dilemmas of Educational Ethics: Cases and Commentaries. Cambridge: Harward EducationPress.
  • Turiel, Elliot (1983). The Development of Social Knowledge: Morality and Convention. Cambridge University Press.


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