UVSSPUP026 Etika v sociální práci a veřejné správě

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Summer 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Petr Slováček, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Petr Slováček, Ph.D.
Institute of Public Administration and Social Policy – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Contact Person: Ing. Lucie Kamrádová, Ph.D.
Timetable
Tue 8:05–8:50 C205; and Fri 28. 3. 13:05–14:40 C311
  • Timetable of Seminar Groups:
UVSSPUP026/A: Tue 9:45–10:30 C303, P. Slováček
Prerequisites
The course is aimed at the space in which ethics (as a philosophical discipline) interacts with social work and public administration, from two directions. Firstly, the explanation will strive to clarify the basic concepts and questions related to ethical issues (ethics, morality, moral pre-understanding, justification and its forms, meta-ethics, etc.). Secondly, the course will outline the position of professional ethics with special regard to the professional ethics of social work and public administration, along with an assessment of their specific values ​​and specific problems that fall particularly within the scope of the professional ethics of public administration or social work.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the course is: a) to equip students with the basic conceptual tools of ethics as a philosophical discipline; b) to problematize the uncritical approach to ethics by introducing them to ways of justifying value judgments; c) to make students more sensitive to ethical issues; d) to apply the ethical perspective thus founded to the professional fields of social work and public administration through the relevant codes of ethics.
Learning outcomes
The student understands what ethics, morality, moral pre-understanding are. The student understands the issues related to the special logical-semantic status of value judgments, on this basis the student understands the relatively broad issues of justification of value judgments. The student also knows the basic ethically relevant documents of social work and public administration, understands specifically professional values ​​and knows what sources they are based on and what is the difference between professional and personal ethics
Syllabus
  • 1. Basic definition of ethics, origin of ethical thinking, relationship of ethics to philosophy and tradition; nature of ethical norms; division of ethics 2. Basic concepts of ethics and their relationships  moral pre-understanding and its categories (good/evil), moral evaluation, conscience, voluntariness, responsibility, justice, human value, autonomy, values, virtues, dilemmas, etc. 3. Ethics and Religious Studies - Judaism and Christianity as indispensable sources of European ethical thought 4. Basic ethical concepts I - ancient and medieval concepts: virtue ethics, hedonism, natural law 5. Basic ethical concepts II - modern and modern concepts: social contract, utilitarianism, ethics of justice, ethics of duty 6. Basic ethical concepts III - intuitionism, emotivism, decisionism, positive law 7. Professional ethics - development, motivation and sources of professional ethics 8. Ethics in social work and public administration - specifics of ethics in social work in the space given by the client, environment and social worker, ethics of care; specifics of ethics in public administration 9. Codes of ethics in social work - the importance and development of codes of ethics in history. Code of Ethics for Social Workers in the Czech Republic 10. Code of Ethics in Public Administration  Code of Ethics for Public Administration Workers 10. Specific Values ​​of Professional Ethics – Freedom, Equality, Impartiality, Professionalism, etc. 11. The Individual, His/Her Autonomy and Dignity  The Dimension of Partnership in Social Work 12. Human Rights Context of Social Work and Public Administration  The Concept of Human Rights as the Most General Basis of Codes of Ethics
Teaching methods
Lecture and seminar.
Assessment methods
The prerequisite for awarding credit is active participation in seminars, which are mandatory, and completion of assigned tasks.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Summer 2024.
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