Newsletter No 4/2019 - Ethics thinking on world days and reading in a digital age
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Editorial
Ethics thinking on world days and reading in a digital ageBy Obiora Ike, Globethics.net Executive Director |
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The global community is nourished each year through the services of the United Nations, its implementing agencies and related foundations on the occasion of World Book and Copyright Day (23 April) and of World Press Freedom Day (3 May) with events and reflections on the importance of reading and in more recent years of reading in a digital age. The annual celebrations marked in various forms by governments, private sector organisations and NGOs and of course publishing houses, journalists and educational institutions, seek to encourage book reading as a bridge that links the past, present and future of artists, thinkers and writers as an activity that unites humanity. |
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| Article of the month: Teachers' Perception of an Integrated Approach to Biology and Emotional Learning The purpose of this qualitative study is to find out how teachers perceive an integrated approach in biology classes. | New Collection: Research Ethics for Professionals A collection focused on work ethics in the research profession, namely on the specific responsibilities common among researchers who carry out the research, including the whole environment and other stakeholders. | New Collection: Research Ethics by Disciplines This collection is part of the Globethics.net Educational Collections, with a focus in this collection on the main disciplines of research and related specific ethical concerns. |
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Network Updates
 | Globethics.net at the WSIS Forum 2019 Check out all the news and photos: Reaching technoutopia through cyber ethics » Student Hackathon to finding solutions for lifelong learning » | |
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| Cyber Ethics a topic in the Russian Civic Chamber The Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation, met on 17 April 2019 in Moscow, Russia with Globethics.net President, Christoph Stückelberger, as a keynote speaker. | Globethics.net Annual Report is out 'Ethics in Higher Education for the Common Good' is the theme of the Globethics.net Annual Report 2018 with ETHICS - Empowerment, Transformation, a Holistic approach, Integrity, Competence and Sustainability - guiding the activities. | Ethics empowering higher education in India The Department of English of the Scott Christian College organised together with Globethics.net a conference focused on enhancing teaching methods and ethical values in the curriculum to empower the student community in India. |
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New Publications
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| Moral and Ethical Issues in Human Genome Editing This in-depth report takes a wider perspective on the issue of human genome editing, which concerns all people as individuals and collectively as a society. It challenges the alleged achievement in China as being profoundly unethical, reflecting a disregard for the ethical and professional concerns of the international scientific community. | Home-Grown Solutions: Legacy to Generations in Africa, Vol.1 This is the first of two volumes that tries to describe and analyse the nature and depth of "home grown solutions" presented in post-genocide Rwanda. It also extends research on innovative areas including managing wounded memory in a post-genocide context, reconciliation and healing, family, language and culture as factors of social cohesion. | Home-Grown Solutions: Legacy to Generations in Africa, Vol. 2 This second volume is part of a study which envisions the rehabilitation of the original positive primal practices in the Rwandan way of life as a factor of sustainable development for nations. The contributors to this volume were guided by the quest for a founding heritage to be transmitted to future generations to inspire their own sense of creativity. |
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