Otaniemi Upper Secondary School – Sustainable Future Project
Course code, full name, and status (C/EC/OP)
ET (Culture, worldviews and ethics)1: Me and the Good Life (C)
Topic
My life choices
Duration
A cross-cutting theme in ET01 that can be articulated and highlighted is the student’s potential to influence. The course also guides the student to recognize their own sustainable impact during the study module.
Objectives (directly from the National Core Curriculum):
The objective of the module is that the students
- understand key concepts related to reflecting on a good life and are able to use them to structure their personal worldviews
- familiarise themselves with different conceptions of a good life and are able to evaluate them as well as examine them in relation to their personal goals in life
- are able to evaluate different preconditions for a good life and identity choices, respecting equity
- know different conceptions of humanity and are able analyse how they lead to different ideals of a good life
- understand the constituent areas of their identities and are able to analyse the individual and communal factors that affect them
- improve their abilities for discussing worldviews, participating in interaction, and expressing their views responsibly, consistently, and creatively.
Content (directly from the National Core Curriculum):
- self, personal worldview, organised worldview, perception of the world
- factors and dimensions of a good life: needs, happiness, meaningfulness of life, well-being, and capabilities for acting; different models of a good life
- conceptions and ideals of humanity manifested in natural and human sciences, philosophy, arts, and popular culture, as well as secular and religious conceptions and ideals
- individuality, life choices, and means of life control: individuals’ possibilities of influencing their own lives, the role of nature and nurture
- an individual’s identity and sociability: individuals in a community, the private and the public, social relationships, roles and norms, intersectional nature of an individual’s status in a community
- fundamental questions of human existence: interpersonal relationships, diversity of gender and sexual orientation, studying and work, ageing and death
More detailed description of content if necessary
In ET01, students reflect on the significance of their personal choices and the responsibility that comes with them. They learn to assess the impact of their decisions and to understand how life choices are connected to values and shape a person’s moral identity. Students are guided to consider how to meet their own needs in a world of limited natural resources.
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