Teaching ethics in extracurricular contexts
Teaching ethics in extracurricular contexts

Summary/Abstract: Students nowadays are more and more interested in taking part in all sorts of activities that imply research; for example, our students at the Technical University of Civil Engineering of Bucharest (UTCB) have been involved in the EU-Conexus consortium, whose cross-European research teams work together in order to discover new solutions for sustainability and development in coastal areas. In this context, Ethics is no longer an abstract subject, but a daily requirement in their scientific activity. Therefore, they must be taught the norms of scientific conduct earlier than stipulated in the curriculum. One way to teach them these good practices in research is to organize extracurricular activities meant to get them familiar with the ethical principles, through games, movies or roleplays. This article proposes some strategies to teach Ethics to the students in the first years of study in an entertaining manner, so that they would later consider this subject an attractive one, able to help them achieve the expected success in their activity as future researchers in their fields of study.

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