Teachers’ perspectives on ethics education – expressed as opportunities and challenges

In Sweden, ethics education occupies a prominent position in the curriculum, both in the general, introductory sections and as a part of the subject religious education. The aim of this article is to investigate teachers’ insights regarding ethics education and to contribute knowledge about opportun...

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Auteurs: Lilja, Annika (Auteur) ; Franck, Olof 1958- (Auteur) ; Osbeck, Christina 1969- (Auteur) ; Sporre, Karin 1952- (Auteur) ; Lifmark, David (Auteur) ; Lyngfelt, Anna (Auteur)
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Langue:Anglais
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Publié: [publisher not identified] 2023
Dans: British Journal of religious education
Année: 2023, Volume: 45, Numéro: 3, Pages: 240-250
Sujets non-standardisés:B ethics education
B multidimensional ethical competence
B teachers’ perspectives
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Résumé:In Sweden, ethics education occupies a prominent position in the curriculum, both in the general, introductory sections and as a part of the subject religious education. The aim of this article is to investigate teachers’ insights regarding ethics education and to contribute knowledge about opportunities and challenges with ethics education, by analysing interviews with ten teachers. Five of the teachers used a fiction-based ethics education within a research and evaluation project, and five teachers used their ordinary ethics teaching. The analysis shows five different themes, time, the students’ background, safe relations, lesson plans, and fiction, to be crucial for ethics education, in relation to both opportunities and challenges. The analysis shows that ethics is a subject that occupies a special position, giving students an education that points to the world and provides opportunities to encounter and explore important situations, in other words, an education that develops a multidimensional ethical competence.
ISSN:1740-7931
Contient:Enthalten in: British Journal of religious education
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/01416200.2023.2201661