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Teaching ethical decision making to students as 21st-century professionals

Tormey, Roland  
February 20, 2025
The Routledge Handbook of Global Sustainability Education and Thinking for the 21st Century

Ethical decision making by professionals is an important element in working towards a sustainable future. This chapter explores the different learning goals which apply to professional ethics education, highlighting a historical shift from a focus on purely cognitive reasoning to include a wider focus to also include emotional and relational goals. It then explores the most commonly cited methods of ethics education, highlighting the existing evidence on the effectiveness of these methods as well as discussing how specific pedagogical approaches are linked to different learning goals. Finally, it locates professional ethics education in the wider context of the culture of professional education; drawing on data from engineering education in particular, it identifies that even excellent ethics education may have little impact if the wider culture of professional education diminishes the importance of ethical and sustainability issues.

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book part or chapter
DOI
10.4324/9781003171577-59
Scopus ID

2-s2.0-85219523074

Author(s)
Tormey, Roland  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Date Issued

2025-02-20

Publisher

Taylor and Francis

Published in
The Routledge Handbook of Global Sustainability Education and Thinking for the 21st Century
ISBN of the book

9781003171577

9781040050736

Start page

736

End page

753

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
AVP-E-CAPE  
Available on Infoscience
March 14, 2025
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/247842
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