2006 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Basic Research and Development of a Pride-based Method in Engineering Ethics Education
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17612005
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
人材育成と技術者倫理
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| Research Institution | Nagoya University |
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Principal Investigator |
ISEDA Tetsuji Nagoya University, Graduate School of Information Science, Associate Professor, 情報科学研究科, 助教授 (80324367)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
TODAYAMA Kazuhisa Nagoya University, Graduate School of Information Science, Professor, 情報科学研究科, 教授 (90217513)
KURODA Kotaro Nagoya University, Graduate School of Engineering, Professor, 工学研究科, 教授 (30161798)
SUGIHARA Keita Nanzan University, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences and Information Engineering, Lecturer, 数理情報学部, 講師 (40410758)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2005 – 2006
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| Keywords | ethics / engineering ethics education |
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| Research Abstract |
In this research, first of all, we investigated and analyzed literatures on virtue ethics and on engineering ethics, along with the investigation of research trends by attending international conferences. We found that the possibility that pride may motivate people to behave ethically has been overlooked in the present virtue ethics literature.
All of the investigators of present study are members of Nagoya Engineering Ethics Forum (NEEF), and have organized various meetings of NEEF. In the first year, we organized meetings such as a colloquium on risk and a Japan-Taiwan conference on engineering ethics with Taiwanese researchers. In the second year, we held symposia on airplane accidents, on engineers as professionals, and on the comparison of various engineering ethics textbooks. We also organized a workshop at the annual meeting of Japan Society for Science and Technology Studies.
Exchanges with other researchers in and out of Japan at these meetings resulted in several findings. First, we considered the question whether pride based ethics education yields undesirable brand of elitism. Our conclusion is that the question cannot be answered without taking into account psychological and sociological aspects of the professionalization. Another insight we obtained is that engineering ethics should be seen in the context of social system rather than as something that concerns only engineers. Thus, the evaluation of methods of engineering ethics education should regard such methods as a part of a social system. Finally, we found through analyses of relevant literature that directing students' attention to a positive side of engineering and technology may be an effective method of engineering education.
In terms of development of educational methods, each investigator developed their own materials based on the textbook Be Proud Engineers, and the materials are used in engineering ethics courses in Nagoya University and Nanzan University.
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Research Products
(39 results)
