Ethical questions about professions: A strategy for the ethical education of college students towards social commitment

Professional ethics is founded like every other branch of ethics, according to Morin (2005), in different religation duties: with the same subject, with others, with society and also with the human race.

The application of the concept of social religation to the definition and carachterization of professional ethics (Morin, 2005) can contribute very relevant elements to comprehend the phenomenon that professionals live these days in a complex context. To understand professional ethics fundamentally as social religation has profound curricular implications that allow to articulate the ethical formation of college students with the construction of social conscience for the transformation of the reality in which they will exercise their profession.

With this foundation, the Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla built the project of: “Ethical questions about professions” that was developed as participative investigation with the academic departments in order to build the moral questions that will orient the new syllabi. These syllabi will begin to operate in the Fall Semester of 2012.

The questions that oriented the investigation are:

What is the ethical question that can give significance to each of the professions to orient the curricular intents and the processes of formation in the classroom in Ibero Puebla?

Which curricular and teaching formation strategies can make the ethical questions formulated for each profession operative?

The general aim of the project was:

To construct in a collaborative manner with the teacher associations of the different departments of the UIAP, the ethical question that would give significance to each of the professions in order to orient the curricular intents and processes of formation in the classroom.

This presentation presents the theoretical foundations of the project and their most relevant results that will be fulfilled in curricular transversal strategies and teachers education programs.