Transformation of education in the perspective of secular ethics

A. P. Slashchinina

doi:10.20913/2224-1841-2021-3-06

Transformation of education in the perspective of secular ethics

A. P. Slashchinina

https://doi.org/10.20913/2224-1841-2021-3-06

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Abstract

The article analyzes the preconditions for the transformation of the higher education system to the trinity of social, emotional, and ethical learning. The author considers the formation of education system with the use of secular Buddhist ethics on the example of Emory University (Emory, USA). The article pays great attention to the speeches of Dalai Lama and the influence of Buddhist philosophy of education on the system of socio-emotional and ethical education. The theoretical analysis of the curriculum of social-emotional-ethical training presents the methodology and the methods of the study. The object of the research is the Buddhist philosophy of education. The subject of the study is SEE Learning program (social-emotional-ethical learning) as a way of reception of the Buddhist philosophy of education in the higher education system. The author considers the implementation of SEE Learning program – social-emotional-ethical learning at Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia). This program is the result of the university’s collaboration with Dalai Lama XVI and the Tibetan Exile Community. The author concludes that the change of value orientations and the decolonization of education are factors that influence the development of educational systems. Social-emotional-ethical learning can solve the problem of lack of ethical education at universities. The introduction of ethics education will enable higher education institutions to produce not only practically and theoretically competent professionals, but also individuals who are able to understand the consequences of their decisions.

Keywords

social philosophy, philosophy of education, postmaterial values, secular ethics, philosophy of Buddhism, social-emotional-ethical education,

About the Author

A. P. Slashchinina

Samara National Research University
Russian Federation

Anastasia P. Slashchinina – Postgraduate Student, Department of Philosophy

34, Moskovskoye Shosse, Samara, 443086

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For citation: Slashchinina A.P. Transformation of education in the perspective of secular ethics. Professional education in the modern world. 2021;11(3):54-62. https://doi.org/10.20913/2224-1841-2021-3-06

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