Moralsk dannelse eller etisk instrumentalisme? en kritisk vurdering av etikkurs innen profesjonsutdanning

To a large extent, professional schools in Norway have recently introduced ethics in the curriculum. However, do the courses have the intended results? The authors critize coursesthat primarily are tool-oriented, i.e with content that has not been designed to influence or form character and behavior: Our perspective on learning strategies distinguishes between a shallow technical, instrumental focus and a moral judgement development based upon the Arestotelian concept of praxis.As one way of putting a character formation objective into practice, the article explores dialogical-oriented approaches to pedagogy. Our concept of dialogue draws upon Buber and Bakhtin: We focus on internal and external dialogue, dialogue between different persons, dialogue between person and text, and dialogue between texts.