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SCIENCE EDUCATION AND MORAL EDUCATION
Author(s) -
Rolston Holmes
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
zygon®
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-9744
pISSN - 0591-2385
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1988.tb00639.x
Subject(s) - moral education , moral agency , agency (philosophy) , moral disengagement , science education , sociology , epistemology , psychology , social psychology , pedagogy , social science , philosophy
. Both science and ethics are embedded in cultural traditions where truths are shared through education; both need competent critics educated within such traditions. Education in both ought to be directed although moral education demands levels of responsible agency that science education does not. Evolutionary science often carries an implicit or explicit understanding of who and what humans are, one which may not be coherent with the implicit or explicit human self‐understanding in moral education. The latter in turn may not be coherent with classical human self‐understandings. Moral education may enlighten and elevate the human nature that has evolved biologically.