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EDUCATION FOR PEACEOPCW Conference on Education and Outreach
22/23 September 2014
Breakout Session 2, Panel 4
Crafting Messages That Work
Moral education of students
and ethical dilemmas of scientists
Chrétien Schouteten
OVERVIEW
• Biographical note and Interests
• Ethical Dilemmas and Chemical Weapons
• Experiences and Statements
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
• Research-assistent in polymer chemistry
• Educator of chemistry teachers
• Chemistry teacher
• Retired
MY INTERESTS
Moral education
of students:
• Critical thinking
• Careful communication and cooperation
• Awareness of own behaviour and social responsibility
• Personal development
Ethical dilemmas
of scientists:
• Human side of science
• Social responsibility
• Biographical stories
• Peace
Use of chemical weapons,
incendiary bombs,
herbicides, cluster
munition, landmines …
• Justice
Sharing of raw materials,
sources of energy,
knowledge, technology,
licencies, fraud, credits for
scientific discoveries …
• Sustainability
Innovations, green chemistry,
environmental protection,
biotechnology, genetic
modification, research on
animals …
ETHICAL DILEMMAS
CHEMICAL WEAPONS
• Chemistry
• Biology
• History
• Ethics
A special role to
emphasize the human
factor:
•Literature
•Visual Arts
•Performing Arts
CHEMISTRY + BIOLOGY
• Definition and types
• Differences with biological weapons
• Structure and properties
• Toxicology
• Dual use
• Synthesis, analysis, protection, prevention,
treatment and destruction
• Working and effects of nerve gases
HISTORY + ETHICS
• Use in the past
• Ieper (1915-1918)
• Halabja (1988), Tokyo (1995), Damascus (2013)
• International politics and laws
• CWC and OPCW
• Scientific freedom?
• Social responsibility of chemists?
• Chemistry for war or peace?
• From moral awareness to a moral code?
LITERATURE
• Poems
Dulce et Decorum Est, Wilfred
Owen;
Anthem for Doomed Youth,
Siegfried Sassoon;
• Novels
Under Fire, Henri Barbusse;
Goodbye to All That, Robert
Graves;
All Quiet on the Western
Front, Erich Maria
Remarque;
The Janus Head, Hermann
Heinz Wille;
Summer 14, Rolf Hochhuth;
Regeneration-Trilogy, Pat
Barker
VISUAL ARTS
• Comics
Fritz Haber I-IV, David
Vandermeulen
• Paintings
Gassed, John Singer Sargent
• Drawings
Christ with Gas Mask, Georg
Grosz
• Etchings (51)
The War, Otto Dix
• Cartoons
From man-monkey to monkey-
man, Albert Hahn
JUST TWO EXAMPLES
Christ with Gas Mask,
Georg GroszFrom man-monkey to monkey-
man, Albert Hahn
PERFORMING ARTS
• Music
War music, war songs
• Films
War films
Haber, Daniel Ragussis;
Clara Immerwahr, Harald
Sicheritz
• Plays
Poisonous Gas in Our Country
A TV talkshow:
chemist, general, peace activist,
Minister of Foreign Affairs, war
sociologist, industrialist
The Chemist
A family tragedy:
Fritz Haber and his 2 wives and 2
sons, Max Planck
Willem Lodewijk Gymnasium
Groningen, The Netherlands, 2001
Gymnasium 1
Severomorsk, Russia, 2004
POISONOUS GAS IN OUR COUNTRY
(not only) ENTHUSIASM AND FUN
THE CHEMIST
Centenary Fritz-Haber-Institute of Max-Planck-Society
Berlin, 2011
Theater 89
EXPERIENCES
A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH
STIMULATES:
• connecting chemistry,
society and ethics
• showing the complexity of
ethical dilemmas
• recognizing and analyzing
moral issues
• ‘humanizing’ chemists
• broadening and deepening
knowledge and abilities
• interest, engagement and
critical thinking, careful
communication and
cooperation
• awareness of social
responsibility
• personal development
• creative expression of
thoughts and feelings
JUST A FEW EXPRESSIONS OF STUDENTS
Martin Wagemakers e.a. Erik Jan Blanksma e.a.
A FEW MOREWouter Hilhorst e.a. Benne Holwerda e.a.
THE LAST ONE …Mathijs Klooster
1.
Teachers have a task in promoting the moral education of students. It is a special challenge for chemistry teachers to connect this moral education to ethical dilemmas of chemists.
2.
Too many chemistry teachers are unaware, unable or unwilling to realise this connection. Educators of chemistry teachers should structurally draw more attention to ethical dilemmas of chemists.
3.
A multidisciplinary approach of ethical dilemmas is necessary and should include (if possible) literature and arts in order toemphasize the human factor. Students should be challenged to express their thoughts and feelings in a creative way.
STATEMENTS
STATEMENTS
4.
OPCW should give more support to (educators of) chemistry teachers in (ethical) questions connected with the subject chemical weapons.
5.
OPCW should organise every year an international conference for (educators of) chemistry teachers in order to share experiences and best practices with the subject chemical weapons.