Ethical Projects in the Field of Teacher Education: Experience of the Ethical Center of L.N. Tolstoy Tula State Pedagogical University

Abstract

The paper discusses the experience of research and educational activities of the Ethics Center of the Tula region, operating within the framework of the Department of Philosophy and Cul­tural Studies and the Research Laboratory of Sociology and Applied Ethics of L.N. Tolstoy Tula State Pedagogical University. The Ethics Center was formed on the basis of research tra­ditions of the Chair of Ethics of Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Department of Ethics of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The relevance of the Ethics Center projects is determined by the fact that they contributed to the combination of research approaches characteristic of academic and university science, ensuring the practi­cal implementation of fundamental theoretical research in the process of training pedagogical staff for higher education (including staff of higher qualification). The novelty of the projects of the Ethics Center is set by the fact that they were aimed at the integration of fundamental theoretical research in the field of ethics and their practical implementation in the sphere of pedagogical education. The main projects of the Ethics Center, which have received sci­entific, teaching, methodological and educational approbation, are: 1) a research project on the history of Russian ethics and ethical education in Russia, 2) a project to create inte­gral ethics, and 3) a project to develop the foundations of digital ethics. With regard to each of the projects, the paper discusses: a) history and content; b) scientific and methodological support; c) implementation in the educational process; d) institutions on the basis of which it was implemented. The project “History of Russian Ethics and Ethical Education in Russia” includes the analysis of moral and religious teachings of L.N. Tolstoy and A.S. Khomyakov in the context of the history of ethical teachings in Russia. It not only contributed to historical and ethical research, but also revealed the conceptual foundations of integral ethics, which contributed to the creation of an original scientific school in the Tula region. The project “In­tegral Ethics” allowed to reveal the interrelationships of philosophical, applied and profes­sional types of ethics. The complex of integral ethical knowledge was realized in profile courses on applied and professional ethics (“ethics of education”, “ethics of law”, “parlia­mentary ethics”, etc.). In the course of the project “Digital Ethics” the theoretical basis and applied implication of digital ethics as a new field of applied ethical research were revealed.