The teaching of ethics at KOE, IIUM
The universities and education face great challenges, most of them directly or indirectly related to science. Technological disasters, environmental degradation and growing social and economic imbalance between rich and poor have led to an increasing mistrust in science, often directed against...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Eubios Ethics Institute
2010
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/23690/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/23690/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/23690/1/The_Teaching_of_Ethics_at_KOE.pdf |
| Summary: | The universities and education face great
challenges, most of them directly or indirectly related
to science. Technological disasters, environmental
degradation and growing social and economic
imbalance between rich and poor have led to an
increasing mistrust in science, often directed against
the development and application of new
technologies. This paper describes the Integration of
Islamic Input Curriculum (IIIC). It begins by stressing
that ethics cannot be separated from morality and
Islamic attitudes and that the training of an ethical
engineer is a long integrated involved and continuous
process throughout the engineering course and not
just teaching of ethical guidelines and rules. It
describes the five-year from integration of Islamic
Input Curriculum at Kulliyyah of Engineering IIUM
which integrates Islamic universal values in the
scientific, behavioral, and social aspects of
engineering teaching. IIIC approach to teaching
ethical issues is presented as a practical example of
how the curriculum is employed. Most ethical issues
are treated as legal issues for which the Law, shariat,
provides general guidelines. The paper may have
input on how one can increase the young scientistʼs
ability to distinguish right from wrong and to take on
social and environmental responsibility? |
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