Using and Developing Role Plays in Teaching Aimed at Preparing for Social Responsibility

Doorn, N.; Kroesen, J.O.

doi:doi:10.1007/s11948-011-9335-6

Using and Developing Role Plays in Teaching Aimed at Preparing for Social Responsibility

Title

Using and Developing Role Plays in Teaching Aimed at Preparing for Social Responsibility

Author

Doorn, N.
Kroesen, J.O.

Faculty

Technology, Policy and Management

Department

Values and Technology

Date

2011-12-20

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss the use of role plays in ethics education for engineering students. After presenting a rough taxonomy of different objectives, we illustrate how role plays can be used to broaden students’ perspectives. We do this on the basis of our experiences with a newly developed role play about a Dutch political controversy concerning pig transport. The role play is special in that the discussion is about setting up an institutional framework for responsible action that goes beyond individual action. In that sense, the role play serves a double purpose. It not only aims at teaching students to become aware of the different dimensions in decision making, it also encourages students to think about what such an institutional framework for responsible action might possibly look like.

Subject

role play
ethics teaching
engineering
institutional context
organizational constraints
macro-ethics
responsible action
institutional framework

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-011-9335-6

Publisher

Springer

ISSN

1353-3452

Source

http://www.springerlink.com/content/yl172v8502318228/