The growth of Ethics Bowls: a pedagogical tool to develop moral reasoning in a complex world
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The growth of Ethics Bowls: a pedagogical tool to develop moral reasoning in a complex world Lisa M. Lee 1 Accepted: 12 October 2020/ # Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Abstract The first Ethics Bowl competition was established in the 1990s by Dr. Robert Ladenson of the Illinois Institute of Technology to help students reason through ethical challenges they will face in their personal and professional lives, and help them develop responsibilities as citizens of a democracy. Since then, the Ethics Bowl format and its pedagogical goals have been adapted to many other academic disciplines and a variety of student and professional populations. Our aim was to quantify the growth of the Ethics Bowl concept by enumerating and describing extant Ethics Bowl programs, outlining both pedagogical goals and operational aspects. Using respondent-driven sampling, we identified 20 Ethics Bowl programs across the globe, reaching tens of thousands of participants annually, and an additional two programs preparing to launch in the near future. We conclude by making recommendations for pedagogical and operational dimensions of the programs. Keywords Ethics Bowl . Ethics education . Teaching ethics . Experiential ethics pedagogy
Introduction Established in the early 1990s by Robert Ladenson of the Illinois Institute of Technology, Ethics Bowl competitions are designed to help students reason through inevitable ethical challenges they will face in their personal and professional lives, and help them develop their responsibilities as citizens of a democracy (Ladenson 2001, 2018). The first several Ethics Bowl competitions were intramural events between a couple of teams at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and by 1995, Professor Ladenson had invited a few nearby colleges to participate, increasing the number of colleges participating to four (Ladenson 2001). In 1997, the first Association for Practical and
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Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
Lee L. M.
Professional Ethics (APPE) Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl (IEB) was held with 14 teams competing; the University of Montana won the championship (APPE 2020). The goal of the APPE IEB® is to provide an opportunity for students to gain healthy respect and understanding for rational civil discourse through the development of skills in critical thinking, moral reasoning, public speaking, and teamwork (Ladenson 2001). The pedagogical method employed to reach program goals includes the use of competition to motivate multidisciplinary teams of undergraduate students from a variety of majors to work together to find a way forward on an ethically challenging case study. Using ethical reasoning, deliberation, presentation skills, and team competition, students are immersed with their teams in a unique pedagogical experience throughout the school year. The typical APPE IEB® team consists of one or more coaches and a group of undergraduate students from various majors who are interested in wrestling with the morally demanding problems of our time. Teams vary in s
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