Teaching Ethics in Religious or Cultural Conflict Situations: a Personal Perspective

This article portrays the unique aspects of ethics education in a multicultural, multireligious and conflict-based atmosphere among Jewish and Arab nursing students in Jerusalem, Israel. It discusses the principles and the methods used for rising above this tension and dealing with this complicated...

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Main Author: Benari, Gili (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2009
In: Nursing ethics
Year: 2009, Volume: 16, Issue: 4, Pages: 429-435
Further subjects:B multicultural conflict
B ethics teaching in conflict situations
B bridging tactics
B Israel
B multireligious conflict
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Summary:This article portrays the unique aspects of ethics education in a multicultural, multireligious and conflict-based atmosphere among Jewish and Arab nursing students in Jerusalem, Israel. It discusses the principles and the methods used for rising above this tension and dealing with this complicated situation, based on Yoder's `bridging' method. An example is used of Jewish and Arab students together implementing two projects in 2008, when the faculty decided to co-operate with communities in East Jerusalem, the Arab side of the city. The students took it upon themselves to chaperon the teachers who came to watch them at work, translate, and facilitate interaction with a guarded and suspicious community. This approach could also be relevant to less extreme conditions in any inter-religious environment when trying to produce graduates with a strong ethical awareness.
ISSN:1477-0989
Contains:Enthalten in: Nursing ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0969733009104607