Summer School
Ethics Teacher Training Course
Postponed until May 2012
Duquesne University, Pittsburgh PA, U.S.A.
Ethics education is increasingly recognized as an important need for future scientists and health professionals. Training opportunities and facilities for teaching ethics, however, are limited and not widely available. This course at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, provides unique opportunities for enhancing educational capacities in ethics education. It offers a high-level master class with the cooperation of experienced ethics teachers.
Experiences with existing teaching programs in the area of ethics are publicly available through the Ethics Education Program of UNESCO. Experiences concerning the contents, intensity, methods and materials of existing programs in many countries therefore can be exchanged among experts. The quality of ethics education, however, also substantially depends on the quality of the teachers. Ethics teaching can be made much more influential and attractive for students if they are engaged by highly qualified, stimulating and inspiring teachers.
This course is set up to provide training to ethics teachers with the purpose to enhance their skills and abilities. It aims particularly on training a new generation of teachers so that ethics teaching programs in the near future can expand and improve in all Member States of UNESCO. The course is organized by the Center for Healthcare Ethics at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, USA (Professors Henk ten Have and Gerry Magill), in cooperation with the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics, University of Haifa, Israel (Professors Amnon Carmi and Daniella Keidar).
Participants should have a Master’s degree (in areas such as law, medicine, philosophy, ethics, or social sciences), hold a University faculty appointment to teach courses, and have good command of English language. Persons who want to register should submit a registration form to Dr. ten Have at tenhaveh@duq.edu. Applicants should also include a letter of intent (2 pages) explaining why they wish to participate in the course and how they expect to benefit from participating. Cost is $800, which includes meals. Students who wish to obtain accommodations for their stay may do so at an additional cost of $150 for their entire stay.
For more information please call us at (001) 412-396-4504.