Infusion of Ethics and Values in Pre-College Science Teaching

这是一个合作研究和教育项目，其目标如下：（1）编写和出版一本教科书，旨在为希望将伦理和价值观专题纳入其课程的中学教师提供实际支持;（2）探索州和国家的科学课程，以确定在小学和中学年级引入伦理和价值观的机会;（3）在初中和高中科学课程中发展伦理和价值观：（4）开始探索和测试在小学科学课程中融入伦理和价值观的可行性;以及5）开发旨在提供教育的暑期学院和/或在职教学计划的模式，需要提供支持和鼓励，以促进在各级开展道德和价值观教育。中学教师的教科书将包括入门教育部分，介绍如何有效地向初中和高中学生介绍科学在社会中的实践和应用的道德和价值方面的研究。 该材料将基于主要研究者在暑期研究所项目中获得的经验，他们以前在伦理学教学方面的经验以及使用案例研究，角色扮演和其他教学技术进行伦理学教学的快速增长的文献。 主要研究人员，一位在小学生道德教育方面具有相当成功经验的哲学家和一位向大学生和高中教师教授科学伦理和价值观的环境科学家，将利用他们的共同休假来相互教育并共同致力于这个项目。

This is a collaborative research and education project which has the following goals: 1) producing and publishing a textbook designed to provide practical support for secondary school teachers who wish to incorporate topics in ethics and values in their curricula; 2) exploring state and national science curricula to identify opportunities for introducing ethics and values the primary and middle school grades; 3) developing ethics and values in science lessons in the junior and senior high ; 4) begin exploring and testing the feasibility of integrating ethics and values in science lessons at the elementary school level; and 5) developing models for summer institutes and/or in-service instructional programs designed to provide the education, support and encouragement needed to promote the teaching of ethics and values at all levels. The textbook for secondary school teachers will include introductory education sections on effective means of introducing junior and senior high school students to the study of moral and value-laden aspects of the practice and uses of science in society. This material will be based on the experience gained by the principal investigators during the summer institute program, their prior experience in teaching ethics and the rapidly growing literature on the teaching of ethics using case studies, role-playing and other pedagogical techniques. The principal investigators, a philosopher with considerable successful experience in teaching ethics to grade school children and an environmental scientist who has taught ethics and values in science to both college students and high school teachers, will take advantage of their mutual sabbatical leaves to educate each other and work together on this project.