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CAS and ETHICAL EDUCATION

CAS and ETHICAL EDUCATION . From the new CAS Guide. “ Meaningful ethical education-the development of ethical beings-happens when people’s feelings and behaviour change, as well as their ideas”. From the new CAS Guide.

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CAS and ETHICAL EDUCATION

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  1. CAS andETHICAL EDUCATION

  2. Fromthe new CAS Guide “Meaningful ethical education-the development of ethical beings-happens when people’s feelings and behaviour change, as well as their ideas”

  3. Fromthe new CAS Guide • “CAS provides a major opportunity for ethical education, understood as involving principles, attitudes and behaviour”. • “The emphasis in CAS is on helping students to develop their own identities, in accordance with the ethical principles embodied in the IB mission statement and the IB learner profile”.

  4. ETHICAL EDUCATION It aims to encourage: • The developing of a coherent ethical identity: free, autonomous, accountable for, able to take ethically valid decisions • A respectful and peaceful coexistence among people, groups, cultures and countries, celebrating diversity as wealth of humanity • Intercultural understanding, safeguarding the identity of people and communities involved

  5. ETHICAL EDUCATION • It requires the development of ethical capacities involving the whole person, thinking, feeling, perceiving and behaving, looking for personal fulfilment and community welfare. • It fosters to improve the capacity to understand and behave in concrete situations • It is carried out through experiential learning.

  6. ETHICAL INTELLIGENCE It is constituted by capacities as: • Self-awareness and self-esteem • Empathy • Dialogue • Ethical deliberation • Sensitivity • Critical understanding • Cooperation • Decision making and problemsolvingskills • Self-regulation … among others.

  7. CAS is experientiallearning It is a process which goes through different stages: • Plan, act. Concrete experience • Observe, reflect. Ongoing critical reflection • New understandings. Framing ofconcepts • Apply learning in new situations.

  8. Experientiallearning and Ethicaleducation Concrete experiences contributing to develop: • Autonomy • Reflection • Capacity of dialogue • Open-mindedness • Commitment • Responsible participation • Full respect for Human Rights. Each individual should be educated so as to have at his/her disposal as wide a range of ethical resources as possible

  9. CONCLUSION Ethical education fosters to develop personalities capable of building, rationally and autonomously, their own value system, being able to make critical judgements of the reality, in a dynamic process of adaptation and transformation. It is actually learning how to live together

  10. CAS: ourchallenge • CAS provides great opportunities to develop the capacity to solve human situations in the light of freely chosen principles that render social harmony and respectful coexistence possible. • Abstract ethical principles are transformed into behavioral directions and value guidelines orienting the actions.

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