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[From the pragmatic to pragmatism: what are the stakes for training in ethics?]
Grégory Aiguier1, Rozenn Le Berre, Dominique Vanpee
1Centre d'Ethique Médicale et Faculté Libre de Médecine de l'Université Catholique de Lille, France.
Abstract:
The contemporary evolution of the request and the recourse for ethics in the health field questions the models of ethics training. Indeed the stake is no more to train actors able of producing a moral speech on the practices but, in a destabilized context, to accompany them in the development of new practices in professional situation. This pragmatic turn in health ethics requires more active, reflective and contextual models of training, needing new links between training places and care practices. This paper is about theoretical foundations of such an ethics pedagogy, and about its stakes in terms of re-institutionalization. Pragmatism, and more particularly the approach of John Dewey, will be mobilized here to found educational practices needed by such an ethics pedagogy (an experiential, reflective and collective learning), but also to consider issues concerning training device linked to such a learning. On this point, the philosophy of integrative block-release training is investigated as a way to develop future professional competences, even if the last part of this text will insist on the reflective governance such an alternation requires and on the "re-institutionalization of the ethics pedagogy" that the latter generates.
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