When should a surveillance system that is used in preventive policing sacrifice the privacy of citizens to prevent criminality? What should be the impact of individual moral expectations when a social media platform designs an algorithm? To what degree can we use technology-driven deception in dementia care practices? And can we create a moral compass for a dashboard society? Over the last decade, the impact of technological innovation has been unprecedented. It has profoundly changed the way we participate and interact in society. It has also led to new moral challenges. Not only because of the technology itself, but also because this technology is used in the context of a globalised world with a more prominent role for the private sector. This can result in moral confusion: individuals who alternately assume the role of citizen and consumer feel unable to influence the design of technology that has a strong impact on their core values. Sustaining this moral confusion is in nobody's long-term interest. In this book, we propose to overcome this moral confusion by using a bottom-up design approach that incubates ethics when constructing new technologies. This book is composed of four parts. In the first part we focus on how to integrate moral decisions and morality in the design process of new technology. In the second part we assess how moral design relates to related discourse, including business ethics, law and policy. In the third part of this book various case studies are highlighted that focus on particular moral design issues at the crossroads of technological innovation in the public and private sector. In the last part we look ahead and discuss what the future might look like if we use moral design as a central approach in creating new technology. This book is relevant for IT and engineering professionals, business leaders and policymakers with innovation in their portfolios, and students of (applied) science who are interested in the moral design of technology. The chapters are written by experts and leading researchers in an attractive, accessible and practical writing style. Each chapter offers colourful examples and challenges the reader to critically think through moral decision-making and the design of innovation. Only table of contents, sample pages and author information can be seen.
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Full text aan te vragen bij auteurs. This article describes the results of qualitative research into the moral issues faced by social work professionals working in projects targeted at teenage mothers. The research is part of the tradition of empirical and practice-driven ethics. The main questions were: How does morality become visible in the social services for teenage mothers and how do social workers deal with the moral dimension of their work? (How) can education, training and peer review offer space for moral reflection? Interviews and group meetings ('focus groups') were held to answer these questions. Nineteen professionals (front-line professionals as well as professionals in executive roles) participated in the research. The findings describe the moral issues and the moral actions of professionals and the organizational context respectively. The results reveal that the everyday practice of social work professionals can raise complex issues inherent to their work and that there is often no explicit reflection on the moral dimension of these issues. The authors argue that there needs to be greater focus on the complexity of moral issues and elaborate on three dimensions of this complexity.
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This entry begins by reviewing the definitions of “human”, “environment” and “dichotomy”, consequently turning to the debates concerning the human–environment relationship. Synthesizing various studies, the capability of advanced tool use; language, hyper-sociality, advanced cognition, morality, civilization, technology, and free will are supposed to be distinctly human. However, other studies describe how nonhuman organisms share these same abilities. The biophysical or natural environment is often associated with all living and non-living things that occur naturally. The environment also refers to ecosystems or habitats, including all living organisms or species. The concepts of the biophysical or natural environment are often opposed to the concepts of built or modified environment, which is artificial - constructed or influenced by humans. The built or modified environment typically refers to structures or spaces from gardens to car parks. Today, one of the central questions in regard to human-environment dichotomies centres around the concept of sustainability. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118924396 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenkopnina/
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Naast kennis en vaardigheden draait professionaliteit om bewustwording van de persoonlijke waarden die professionele besluitvorming beïnvloeden. Inzicht in persoonlijke waarden is bepalend voor de kwaliteit van het professionele handelen. Praktijkgericht en biografisch onderzoekt leidt tot ondersteuning van dit bewustwordingsproces. Doel Het doel van dit onderzoek is om de persoonlijke drijfveren van studenten en beroepskrachten boven water te krijgen. We ontwikkelen daarvoor verschillende instrumenten die bijdragen om de dieperliggende motivaties te articuleren en bewust te maken. De focus is gericht op de morele bewustwording als onderdeel van de persoonlijke levensoriëntatie. We ontwikkelen bruikbare instrumenten om de normen en waarden van studenten en beroepskrachten in kaart te brengen en te analyseren. We ontwikkelen tools en werkvormen die studenten en beroepskrachten ondersteunen in hun zelfreflectie en hun normatieve professionalisering. Resultaten Resultaat is een narratief-biografisch onderzoeksinstrument dat aan elke studierichting aangepast kan worden. Het is een instrument dat gedurende de hele studie als voortgaande relfectie ingezet kan worden. Daarnaast heeft onderzoek in enkele analyse-instrumenten voorzien die bijdragen aan een verdiept inzicht in de onderliggende motivaties van studenten en beroepskrachten voor hun professioneel handelen. We onderscheiden zeven typologieën van studenten die studieloopbaanbegeleiders helpen effectief af te stemmen op de student om haar/zijn waarden en normen expliciet te maken. Voortgaand onderzoek en projecten leiden momenteel tot een variëteit aan didactische werkvormen, reflectietools die vaak onbewuste waardenoriëntatie bespreekbaar maken en in dialoog brengen. Theoretische onderbouwing is beschreven in het proefschrift Van der Zande, E. (2018). Life Orientation for Professionals. A Narrative Inquiry into Morality and Dialogical Competency in Professionalisation. Almere: Parthenon. Looptijd 20 november 2019 - 01 december 2023 Aanpak Dit project valt uiteen in diverse deelprojecten: - Leraar, waar sta je voor? - Didactische integratie van het narratief zelfportret in het leerteamleren
