Etika aukštojoje mokykloje : poveikio studento asmenybei problema

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Aukštasis mokslas; Aukštoji mokykla; Dėstymo patirtis; Etika; Studento asmenybė; Ethics; High school; Higher education; Student personality; Teaching experience.

ENOn the basis of long-term experience of teaching ethics at the institutions of higher education and research results, the author claims that teaching practical philosophy (ethics) justifies itself when the subject has a high status (i.e. ethics is not considered by students as an inferior subject). Vytautas Magnus University has accumulated rich experience: Introduction to Ethics is taught to all first - or second year students and a final exam in written form is taken at the end of the course. The influence of Introduction to Ethics on the personality of a student is evident: moral consciousness is being enhanced. It opens perspectives for choosing moral behaviour, for critical evaluation of cultivated behaviour and for changing value orientations towards a positive direction. However, ethics in higher education cannot be considered only as an educational subject, which seeks to answer students' questions about life.Ethics is a philosophical subject which broadens students' knowledge of moral philosophy, develops students' epistemic look and their ability to value significant spiritual cultural phenomena. Therefore, the influence on the students' personality is not straightforward but reveals itself in the deep form: this can be testified by broadening spiritual life of a young person, his/her interest in the history of ethics, in the texts of famous philosophers, and his/her inquisitiveness for interpretation of everyday life moral phenomena in the context of moral philosophy. While studying ethics, a student learns to think more critically than before, develops his/her ability to reform knowledge, and to make alternative moral judgements, and, of course, forces himself/ herself to break moral interpretations and judgements, existing in his/her consciousness. This is related to the most important issue - a student's way of life, his/her behaviour and value cultivation. [From the publication]