Universität Wien

180123 SE Didactics of Ethics (2016S)

Moral Dilemmas and Movies in Ethics Classes

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 18 - Philosophie
Continuous assessment of course work

This seminar aims at discussing methodological and didactical aspects of teaching ethics at AHS and BHS. The students discuss the relationship between film and philosophy, focussing on moral quandaries, conflict situations, and thought experiments. The topics chosen correspond with the Austrian curriculum, and help students to get ready for their teaching assignments in the future.
Students are supposed to attend and reflect upon one of the talks on didactics in philosophy, organized by the department.
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Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 20 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Monday 14.03. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal. 2H NIG 2.Stock
  • Monday 04.04. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal. 2H NIG 2.Stock
  • Monday 11.04. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal. 2H NIG 2.Stock
  • Monday 18.04. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal. 2H NIG 2.Stock
  • Monday 25.04. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal. 2H NIG 2.Stock
  • Monday 02.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal. 2H NIG 2.Stock
  • Monday 09.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal. 2H NIG 2.Stock
  • Monday 23.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal. 2H NIG 2.Stock
  • Monday 30.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal. 2H NIG 2.Stock
  • Monday 06.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal. 2H NIG 2.Stock
  • Monday 13.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal. 2H NIG 2.Stock
  • Monday 20.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal. 2H NIG 2.Stock
  • Monday 27.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal. 2H NIG 2.Stock

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The students learn in teams how to prepare, try out and reflect upon lessons, thus giving them a hint what can be done when teaching ethics. They understand how to discuss, plan and use moral quandaries, conflict situations, and thought experiments presented in films for the classroom . The seminar aims at cultivating central competences and skills such as critical reflection, using philosophical terminology, or debating skills.
Students are supposed to attend and reflect upon one of the talks on didactics in philosophy, organized by the department.

Assessment and permitted materials

Regular seminar attendance (at least 80 %) and class participation; one presentation; one seminar paper (roughly ten pages). The paper is supposed to document the Student engagement with one of the topics of the seminar and his/her learning process.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Examination topics

Methodological and didactical aspects of teaching ethics at AHS and BHS.

Reading list

Approbierte Lehrbücher für den Philosophieunterricht an AHS/BHS, vor allem: Konrad Paul Liessmann, Gerhard Zenaty und Katharina Lacina, Vom Denken. Einführung in die Philosophie. 5. Aufl. Wien: Braumüller 2007 und Katharina Lacina, Reflexionen. Das Philosophiebuch. Wien: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky 2014.

Andersen, Nathan (2010). Filmmaking in the Philosophy Classroom: Illustrating the Examined Life, Teaching Philosophy, 33, 4, 375-97.
Bertram, Georg W., Hrsg. (2012). Philosophische Gedankenexperimente: Ein Lese- und Studienbuch, Stuttgart: Reclam.
Cavallar, Georg (2010). Sind alle Menschenleben gleich viel wert?, Ethik und Unterricht, 1/10, 50-2.
Cavallar, Georg (2012). At the movies: Die Vermittlung von Kants Ethik durch Spielfilme im Philosophieunterricht, in: Alfred Dunshirn, Elisabeth Nemeth, Gerhard Unterthurner (Hrsg.), Crossing Borders. Grenzen (über)denken. Thinking (across) Boundaries. Beiträge zum 9. Kongress der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Philosophie, 1055-64.
Cavell, Stanley (1996). Contesting Tears: The Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman, Chicago.
Falzon, Christopher (2003). Philosophy Goes to the Movies: An Introduction to Philosophy, London: Routledge.
Fischer, Maike (2011). Philosophie und Film; der Einsatz von Filmen als Medium im Philosophie- und Ethikunterricht, Diplomarbeit Wien.
Handorf, Rico (2011). Die Tücken der Gerechtigkeit in Gotham City; oder Philosophieren mit Batman? Der Film The Dark Knight im Unterricht, ZDPE 33, 3, 212-219.
Hildebrand, Jens (2001). Film: Ratgeber für Lehrer, Köln: Aulis Verlag.
Livingston, Paisley (2006). Theses on Cinema as Philosophy, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 64, 1, 11-18.
Peters, Jörg (2007). Filmographie für die Fächer Philosophie; Praktische Philosophie; Ethik; Werte und Normen und L-E-R, Zeitschrift für Didaktik der Philosophie und Ethik, 29, 2, 137-42.
Peters, Jörg, Martina Peters und Bernd Rolf (2006). Philosophie im Film, Bamberg: Buchner.
Read, Rupert und Jerry Goodenough (eds., 2005). Film as Philosophy. Essays on Cinema after Wittgenstein and Cavell, Basingstoke et al.: Palgrave Macmillan.
Wartenberg, Thomas E. (2006). Beyond Mere Illustration: How Films Can Be Philosophy, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 64, 1, 19-32.

Zeitschriften:
Ethik und Unterricht
Jahrbuch für Didaktik der Philosophie und Ethik.
ZDPE = Zeitschrift für Didaktik der Philosophie und Ethik.

Association in the course directory

PP 57.4.4

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