Module Specifications.
Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025
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Date posted: September 2024
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Coursework Only Essay 2000 words |
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Description This module engages students with understanding and responding to complex moral and values issues including poverty, racism, inter-religious conflict, engagement and dialogue, human sexuality, beginning and end of life issues and bereavement, climate and sustainability issues and human rights. The exploration of these moral and ethical issues is underpinned by interfaith and interpath approaches. This module is intended to develop students’ insights into and approaches to education for global citizenship with a particular interfaith/interpath focus. It is also intended to develop heightened sensitivity and respect to work effectively and inclusively with parents, colleagues and the wider school community in an increasingly pluralist Ireland in line with the Teaching Council Code of Conduct. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Learning Outcomes 1. Critically engage with key moral and ethical questions in Irish society including global justice, climate and sustainability, poverty, racism and marginalisation, inter-religious conflict, attitudes towards diverse sexualities and different types of families, and beginning and end of life issues. 2. Discuss the values, beliefs and responses to moral and ethical questions by those who are members of major world faiths and those who are humanists, atheists or not adherents of any organised religious group. 3. Outline the skills and qualities primary teachers need to develop in order to engage primary school children with moral and ethical issues, using both interfaith and interpath perspectives. 4. Examine appropriate narrative resources and pedagogical approaches for the primary classroom to engage children with exploring and responding to moral and ethical issues, using both interfaith and interpath perspectives. 5. Consider the five marks of mission of the Anglican Communion (encompassing social justice issues, care for the environment and service of others) and use the five marks to critically evaluate how Church of Ireland school ethos can address ethical and moral issues in a pluralist world. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml |
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Indicative Content and Learning Activities
Religions, Ethics, Morals and ValuesThrough their understanding of the core beliefs of major world faiths acquired in the B.Ed1 REMV module and their discussion of non-religious viewpoints, the students will engage with complex moral and values issues at both global and local levels. These include justice issues such as poverty, racism, slavery, climate justice, human sexuality, beginning and end of life issues and bereavement. They will use narrative approaches such as children's stories, graphic stories, video, recorded interviews and podcasts, photographs, case-studies and projects, walking debates and planning school assemblies - all suitable approaches for use in the primary years. The module will examine age and ability appropriate ways in which complex moral and ethical questions can be introduced to children throughout the primary years, studying suitable classroom resources. It will ask students to reflect on the skills, attitudes and approaches that teachers need to develop in order to explore these complex moral and ethical issues with primary school children. The module concludes with a series of workshops on handling bereavement, and global and local tragedies using a range of age-appropriate narrative and spiritual resources. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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