The purpose of the study was to grope a teaching-learning plan for ethics to improve ethic ability to think so that students might make a reasonable decision of diverse complicated ethic problems in their life according to each situation and context.
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The purpose of the study was to grope a teaching-learning plan for ethics to improve ethic ability to think so that students might make a reasonable decision of diverse complicated ethic problems in their life according to each situation and context.
It is difficult for students to settle ethic problems with simple virtues in the present when social changes are quick-changed and diverse values are recognized, differing from traditional society without special problems in forming ethic principles and keeping ethic individual and society with fixed virtues. Therefore, education of ethics shall be in directions to improve ethic ability to think to settle diverse ethic problems in an amicable way.
Most of problems in daily life are involved with ethic conditions. Therefore, ethic thoughts need an overall research on complicated and multidimensional issues related to concrete conditions in life. In such meaning, ethic thoughts, a target of ethic education, is ‘multidimensional wisdom of practice’. ‘multi-dimensional’ includes critic, creative and considerate thoughts and ‘practical’ is emphasizing behaviors in the side of conditions and context. Namely, education of ethic ability to think is involved with ethic behaviors.
However, ethic education until now was not enough to improve ethic ability to think. Classes of ability to think emphasizing only rote of norms in the viewpoint of adults and mixed and matched to suit a simple frame of theory became emphasized rather results than process. Such ethic classes made students have only their viewpoint that ethics are a simple subject to induce answers without any deep way of thinking by offering only fragmentary knowledge to them.
Therefore, the study presented a community of inquiry model as an effective plan for settling problems with education of ethics and improving ethic ability to think. For, the community of inquiry can make students improve critic, creative and considerate thoughts by taking an interesting in their life, extracting research themes in person, stimulating thoughts with each other through conversation and discussion, producing and exchanging ideas, making concept clear, developing hypothesis, guessing possible results and enjoying intellectual mutual dependence. Namely, the research community class itself is how to improve ethic ability to think and a community result through ethic thoughts at once.
Therefore, the study presented a model and strategy of the community of inquiry and proposed diverse methods of evaluation such as self-evaluation, evaluation among students, evaluation on teachers and evaluation on results of research community activities to reflect the above process in performance evaluation.
However, to improve ethic ability to think, timely and spatial conditions shall be made so that continuous and consistent community of inquiry may be progressed. Teachers shall also concentrate their efforts on applying the community of inquiry model to ethic classes in a positive way. In addition, teachers’ ability shall be improved in advance to form an atmosphere to think and talk freely, to extend students’ thoughts through effective and proper presentation and to make an amicable progress of discussion classes. It will be a good plan to raise quality in education to apply diverse research books and class guidance to guide books for teachers. And students’ ability to think will be improved and education of ethics will play its role based on ethic education when class environment is changed from teachers to students, attach greater importance to community than competition among students and changed to make students find problems in person and settle the problems rather positively than passively.