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Subject | Title of Course | Course Description |
Ethics and Sustainable Development | Education for Sustainable Development: The Role of Ethical Argumentation (Tübingen), Dr. Simon Meisch (Tübingen)
| We are confronted by ethical reasoning in all sorts of concrete societal discourses, such as the debate concerning sustainable development. As Education for Sustainable Development is a compulsory part of basic education in Germany, it is our aim to equip future teachers with core knowledge and professional abilities for their future work. Ethical arguments consistute the basis of evaluating actions and assigning responsibility. They can help answer the question of what we should do in order to ensure that as many people as possible can lead good and autonomous lives – today and in the future. For this reason, it is important to be able to recognize ethical reasoning and respond to it. In this introductory seminar course (Proseminar), we will discuss the main theoretical approaches to ethics, such as philosophy of happiness, deontological ethics, utilitarian ethics, and moral relativism. In selected sessions, the various theoretical approaches will be applied to concrete current examples from the discourse surrounding sustainable development. The goal of the seminar is to provide an overview over the various approaches to ethics, to become familiar with ethics terms and types of ethical reasoning. In the last part of the course we will focus on educational settings: We will analyse, create and discuss teaching material on sustainable development under special consideration of their implicit and explicit ethical argumentation, and learn to develop and evaluate concrete ethical issues in educational settings. |
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Courses International Education Week 2024
International Applicants please find application details here.
Students from Tübingen can register via Alma-System.
All the classes take place at University Tübingen, on site in Tübingen.
Course | Title | Instructors | Course Description |
A | Ethical Arguments in the Debate on Sustainable Development | Dr. Uta Müller & Dr. Simon Meisch (International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW), Tübingen University) | What has chocolate to do with sustainable development? As we will see in this course, quite a lot. So, we will use the example of chocolate to study challenges of sustainable development and by doing so learn about ethical concepts underlying these debates. In this course, you will get insights into the fundamental controversies surrounding sustainable development, understand the central approaches to ethics and learn how to use ethical arguments in the context of concrete discussions. In addition, you will learn a lot about chocolate. As the course is part of the Education Week, organised by the Tübingen School of Education, you will get the opportunity to work and learn together with students from other European partner universities. The class language is English. Classes take place in the mornings and afternoons, complemented by excursions and other social events. |
B | Mindfulness in Teacher and Student Education | Dr. Martin Harant & Anja Nold (Faculty of Economical and Social Sciences, Institute of Education, Tübingen University) | In recent years it has become common to (re)focus on the mind as an object of interest in educational discourse and practice. Fairly unconceivable some decades ago, contemporary educational theorists claim a ‘contemplative turn in education’ and turn their attention to an inner curriculum of the mind that needs to be addressed by educational thinking. Wellbeing is brought into the discussion alongside performance as a school quality characteristic and educational practitioners set up mindfulness-based interventions in school as a curriculum for social-emotional learning and a means to reduce stress and anxiety in class. |