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Broadly accepted goals of ethics education are knowledge, skills, and moral improvement. The first goal involves gaining more familiarity with ethical theories, concepts, arguments, debates, important ethicists and so forth. The second one entails acquiring abilities regarding ethical analysis, argumentation, deliberation, and the like. The third goal involves moral improvement of behavior.
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Gordijn, B. (2015). Moral Improvement Through Ethics Education. In: ten Have, H. (eds) Bioethics Education in a Global Perspective. Advancing Global Bioethics, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9232-5_14
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