技術者倫理教育用事例としての水俣病事件 : 教育実践報告

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The Minamata disease incident was used in an engineering ethics course for the third-year students in Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Fukui. It was found that the Minamata disease incident is an excellent teaching material for the engineering ethics. education, especially for the students studying in the chemistry-related fields, in spite of the fact that approximately 50 years have already passed since it was first reported. In order to enhance the emotional involvement of the learners, a significant amount of Chisso engineers' voices looking back on the incident were used with a case-method approach. The questionnaire results showed that the ethical consciousness of the learners have improved significantly after a series of classes. On the basis of the lesson from the Minamata disease, we proposed a daily checklist of the lifestyle habit for engineers, reminding them to pay sufficient attention to five types of mental power; professional power, imaginative power, observation power, explanation power, and cooperative power. These checkpoints will not sufficient to totally prevent engineers from the unethical conduct. However, the list is convenient to use daily for busy engineers and could be effective to minimize missteps leading to serious unethical incidents.
福井大学の論文
2005-03-31