International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW)

Seminar (Dis-)course Ethics

Project management:

Dr. Julia Dietrich

Telephone: +49 / 7071 / 29-77986

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Contact:

Ilona Szlezák

Telephone: +49 / 7071 / 29-77511

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Cooperation partner at the St. Meinrad Gymnasium (secondary school) in Rottenburg:

Bernd Schlaier

Telephone: +49 / 7472 / 93780

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Duration:

since the 2006/2007 school year

Funding:

Stiftung Katholische Freie Schule der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart (Foundation Independent Catholic School of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart)

The Project

The IZEW conducts interdisciplinary courses at the 12th-grade level at the St. Meinrad Gymnasium (secondary school) in Rottenburg. In addition to providing students with presentation techniques, teaching them how to work effectively in teams and independently write academic papers, the goal of the project is to motivate students to take an in-depth look at current ethical issues in biomedicine and biotechnology. The method of reflexive consultation developed in the context of the project Concrete Discourses is used, according to which the students work on an actual ethical problem in small groups. Furthermore, the IZEW takes part in the conceptual and didactic development of the Philosophical and Theological Forum (PTF) at the school in which ethical issues are integrated into the school’s curriculum.


It is also possible for other schools to arrange a visit to the IZEW and its library or to request a speaker to provide further teacher training. For more information, please contact the project manager Dr. Julia Dietrich.

Selected Publications

Dietrich, Julia; Marx-Stölting, Lilian; Mildenberger, Georg; Tyroller, Alexandra; Voget, Lieske (2006): Zwischen Politik und Alltag. Konkrete Diskurse an Schulen und Hochschulen zum Einsatz moderner Biotechnologien in Medizin und Landwirtschaft. In: Zeitschrift für die Didaktik der Philosophie und Ethik (ZDPE) 2/2006. S. 146-156.


Dietrich, Julia; Kosuch, Markus; Marx-Stölting, Lilian; Mildenberger, Georg; Müller, Albrecht; Rampp, Benjamin; von Schell, Thomas; Seitz, Otto; Tyroller, Alexandra; Voget, Lieske (2008): Konkrete Diskurse zur ethischen Urteilsbildung. Ein Leitfaden für Schule und Hochschule am Beispiel moderner Biotechnologien. München: oekom.


Dietrich, Julia (2008): Wie kann man Ethik lernen? Kommentiertes Literaturdossier. Hg. v. der KEB Katholischen Erwachsenenbildung Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart e.V. und dem Interfakultären Zentrum für Ethik in den Wissenschaften (IZEW) der Universität Tübingen. Tübingen: IZEW.