TY - JOUR
T1 - Erasmus Mundus Master of Bioethics
T2 - a case for an effective model for international bioethics education
AU - Piasecki, Jan
AU - Dirksen, Kevin
AU - Inbadas, Hamilton
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, The Author(s).
PY - 2018/3/1
Y1 - 2018/3/1
N2 - Designing bioethics curriculum for international postgraduate students is a challenging task. There are at least two main questions, which have to be resolved in advance: (1) what is a purpose of a particular teaching program and (2) how to respectfully arrange a classroom for students coming from different cultural and professional backgrounds. In our paper we analyze the case of the Erasmus Mundus Master of Bioethics program and provide recommendations for international bioethics education. In our opinion teaching bioethics to postgraduate international students goes beyond curriculum. It means that such a program requires not only well-defined goals, including equipping students with necessary skills and knowledge, but also it should first and foremost facilitate positive group dynamics among students and enables them to engage in dialogue to learn from one another.
AB - Designing bioethics curriculum for international postgraduate students is a challenging task. There are at least two main questions, which have to be resolved in advance: (1) what is a purpose of a particular teaching program and (2) how to respectfully arrange a classroom for students coming from different cultural and professional backgrounds. In our paper we analyze the case of the Erasmus Mundus Master of Bioethics program and provide recommendations for international bioethics education. In our opinion teaching bioethics to postgraduate international students goes beyond curriculum. It means that such a program requires not only well-defined goals, including equipping students with necessary skills and knowledge, but also it should first and foremost facilitate positive group dynamics among students and enables them to engage in dialogue to learn from one another.
KW - Bioethics education
KW - Erasmus Mundus Master of Bioethics
KW - Graduate education in bioethics
KW - Moral imperialism
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85033439854&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11019-017-9814-x
DO - 10.1007/s11019-017-9814-x
M3 - Article
C2 - 29127644
AN - SCOPUS:85033439854
SN - 1386-7423
VL - 21
SP - 3
EP - 10
JO - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
JF - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
IS - 1
ER -