Last week, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (Bioethics Commission) published a new report, Bioethics for Every Generation: Deliberation and Education in Health, Science, and Technology that highlights the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl as an effective teaching tool for college students to learn about ethics.
Last year, emeritus professor Dr. Robert Ladenson had the opportunity to speak at a roundtable discussion organized by the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues that focused on brainstorming ideas on education and deliberation. Dr. Ladenson discussed how the Ethics Bowl has been used around the country by high schools and universities to help students not only to learn about important ethical issues, but also deliberate and discuss these issues in the form of a competition.
The report describes the Ethics Bowl as,
"...the
Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl teaches
college students how to engage in ethical
reasoning by deliberating in teams about
specific cases, including bioethics topics.
The Ethics Bowl challenges the traditional
pedagogical approaches and requires
students to engage with the topic and
deliberate together, each bringing her
own values and ethical reasoning skills
to bear. It raises the stakes by using
team competition, engaging students
in active learning. " (p.77)
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