Three months ago, I gave notice of secular ethics courses introduced in some schools in Australia, where they went to support the religion courses (see the article "Teaching ethics in public schools Australian ').
These courses whose purpose is to allow children to "learn to think critically, to discuss what is right and wrong, and deal with philosophical themes of the appropriate level; rates avoid explicitly to inculcate moral precepts in particular children. "
In a sense, this is a secular equivalent of SRE (the time of religion in Australia), in that it aims to get to know the children with questions of ethics, in another sense, however, is diametrically opposite, because they do not inculcate children with a particular worldview.
But I had missed a story: what happened in schools where the testing time of secular ethics was launched? 47% of students of the SRE (Protestant) are passed to the new course. The half of the students who first followed a course of indoctrination in a particular moral vision has chosen to take advantage of a course that teaches the fundamental inculcate ethics without any particular view.
In Italy, the Catholic Church has a monopoly on the time of religion (which in fact is called "Teaching of the Catholic religion ', IRC); theoretically, the schools would be allowed to offer alternative courses for students who do not intend to rely but in practice , the chronic lack of funds, but they do not ever come true in the case of IRC, means that these hours are almost never offers alternatives.
So I repeat my request that I made at the time of the first article, in light of the success that these courses have Australia: could not arrange alternative one hour of ethics in Italy?
Meanwhile there is a campaign for respect for the law on the time either: Project alternative time.
These courses whose purpose is to allow children to "learn to think critically, to discuss what is right and wrong, and deal with philosophical themes of the appropriate level; rates avoid explicitly to inculcate moral precepts in particular children. "
In a sense, this is a secular equivalent of SRE (the time of religion in Australia), in that it aims to get to know the children with questions of ethics, in another sense, however, is diametrically opposite, because they do not inculcate children with a particular worldview.
But I had missed a story: what happened in schools where the testing time of secular ethics was launched? 47% of students of the SRE (Protestant) are passed to the new course. The half of the students who first followed a course of indoctrination in a particular moral vision has chosen to take advantage of a course that teaches the fundamental inculcate ethics without any particular view.
In Italy, the Catholic Church has a monopoly on the time of religion (which in fact is called "Teaching of the Catholic religion ', IRC); theoretically, the schools would be allowed to offer alternative courses for students who do not intend to rely but in practice , the chronic lack of funds, but they do not ever come true in the case of IRC, means that these hours are almost never offers alternatives.
So I repeat my request that I made at the time of the first article, in light of the success that these courses have Australia: could not arrange alternative one hour of ethics in Italy?
Meanwhile there is a campaign for respect for the law on the time either: Project alternative time.
Just for completeness of information, reported to be alarmed that the success of secular ethics courses are religious organizations, those who until now had a monopoly on ethics and teaching students the their version of morality (and then complain about the lack of freedom of education!).
The Anglican Diocese of Sydney has opened a site dedicated to raising money to "protect la SRE». Secondo questo sito, la perdita dell'educazione religiosa comporterebbe il rischio «di perdere la vera e fondamentale etica che ha sostenuto la struttura morale dell'Australia per centinaia di anni». Chissà che non sia una cosa positiva.
The Anglican Diocese of Sydney has opened a site dedicated to raising money to "protect la SRE». Secondo questo sito, la perdita dell'educazione religiosa comporterebbe il rischio «di perdere la vera e fondamentale etica che ha sostenuto la struttura morale dell'Australia per centinaia di anni». Chissà che non sia una cosa positiva.
Fonti: Jacqueline Maley, « Scripture classes lose half of students to ethics, say Anglicans », The Sidney Morning Herald , 8 maggio 2010.
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