Reflective Consensus Building on Wicked Problems with the Reflect! Platform.

Wicked problems—that is, problems that can be framed in a number of different ways, depending on who is looking at them—pose ethical challenges for professionals that have scarcely been recognized as such. Even though wicked problems are all around us, they are rarely addressed in education. A reaso...

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Publicado en:Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 26; no. 2; pp. 793 - 820
Autor principal: Hoffmann, Michael H. G.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Apr2020
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Sumario:Wicked problems—that is, problems that can be framed in a number of different ways, depending on who is looking at them—pose ethical challenges for professionals that have scarcely been recognized as such. Even though wicked problems are all around us, they are rarely addressed in education. A reason for this failure might be that wicked problems pose almost insurmountable challenges in educational settings. This contribution shows how students can learn to cope with wicked problems in problem-based learning projects that are structured by the Reflect! platform.