EESE: Experiencing Ethics

EESE：体验道德

• 批准号: 1135357
• 负责人: Ioannis Pavlidis
• 金额: $ 29.93万
• 依托单位: University of Houston
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1135357&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EESE; Experiencing; Ethics

This education project introduces novel science ethics coursework at the University of Houston (UH) that features three levels: theoretical, case studies, and experiential. The theoretical level identifies and explains central moral issues and principles relevant to research ethics. This is followed by dialectic investigation of famous cases in science ethics. The coursework culminates with the experiential level, an ethics practicum with an emphasis on topics of peer review, human subjects and animal experiments, which form cornerstones of modern research life. The practicum element involves student placement in participating labs or research groups, and is supported by an ever-expanding group of mentors from UH and local medical schools, as well as by conference committees and journal boards. In the introductory course the practicum lasts 2-3 weeks whereas in the advanced course students are immersed in the practicum throughout the semester; regardless of duration, concurrently with the practicum students are engaged in the classroom in a deeper philosophical investigation of relevant issues. Although it is challenging to incorporate a practicum into the field of ethics, the PI believes it is of immense value because it transforms the abstract into the concrete. A pilot version of the course offered by the PI allowed him to identify and to formulate processes for addressing major concerns relating to finding a placement for all students, the mechanics of peer review traineeship, and the mechanics of human/animal research traineeship. A diverse set of outreach activities complements the above, and includes the traditional (such as seminar and workshop organization and publication of a book) along with interaction via social media (e.g., blogging and Facebook), in order to engage young people in ethics discourse on an everyday basis. Broader Impacts: The processes developed by the PI and his team in successfully implementing this challenging methodology will serve as an exemplar and be widely adopted, thereby transforming the preparation of young researchers. A minority institution (the University of Texas at Brownsville), several research labs, and a number of conferences and journals have already expressed support for this initiative and their intention to participate. This unique educational program links theoretical analysis to real ethical experiences gained via a practicum, a methodology the PI believes may prove particularly effective with blue collar student populations who have a technical orientation and a very practical view of the world. It advances "thinking aloud" as a strategy to help people deal with ethical drift, a ubiquitous cause of unethical behavior, by regularly soliciting feedback from friends. It advocates the use of social media on a large scale, not only as a global outreach platform, but also as a lifelong data gathering tool for evaluation purposes.

该教育项目介绍了休斯顿大学（UH）的新颖科学伦理课程，分为三个层次：理论、案例研究和体验。 理论层面确定并解释与研究伦理相关的核心道德问题和原则。 其次，对科学伦理学中的著名案例进行了辩证考察。 课程以体验水平为高潮，这是一个伦理学实习，重点是同行评议，人类受试者和动物实验的主题，这些主题构成了现代研究生活的基石。 实习元素涉及学生在参与实验室或研究小组的安置，并由来自UH和当地医学院的不断扩大的导师小组以及会议委员会和期刊委员会支持。 在入门课程中，实习持续2-3周，而在高级课程中，学生整个学期都沉浸在实习中;无论时间长短，与实习同时，学生在课堂上对相关问题进行更深入的哲学研究。 虽然将实践纳入伦理学领域具有挑战性，但PI认为它具有巨大的价值，因为它将抽象转化为具体。 PI提供的课程的试点版本使他能够确定并制定解决与为所有学生找到一个位置，同行评审培训的机制和人类/动物研究培训的机制有关的主要问题的过程。 一套多样化的外联活动补充了上述活动，包括传统的（如组织研讨会和讲习班以及出版一本书）沿着通过社交媒体进行的互动（如，（b）通过博客和脸书（Facebook），让年轻人每天都参与道德操守讨论。 更广泛的影响：PI和他的团队在成功实施这种具有挑战性的方法中开发的过程将作为一个范例并被广泛采用，从而改变年轻研究人员的准备。 一个少数民族机构（布朗斯维尔的德克萨斯大学）、几个研究实验室以及一些会议和期刊已经表示支持这一倡议并打算参与。这种独特的教育计划将理论分析与通过实习获得的真实的道德经验联系起来，PI认为这种方法可能对蓝领学生群体特别有效，他们具有技术方向和非常实用的世界观。 它提出“大声思考”作为一种策略，通过定期征求朋友的反馈，帮助人们处理道德漂移，这是一种普遍存在的不道德行为的原因。 它倡导大规模使用社交媒体，不仅将其作为全球外联平台，而且作为用于评价目的的终身数据收集工具。