An Ethical Basis for Sustainability in the World Views of First Year Students

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aut.relation.conference2nd International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S 2014)en_NZ
aut.relation.endpage131
aut.relation.pages11
aut.relation.startpage120
aut.researcherSmith, Nell
dc.contributor.authorMann, Sen_NZ
dc.contributor.authorCostello, Ken_NZ
dc.contributor.authorLopez, Den_NZ
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Nen_NZ
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-07T00:11:45Z
dc.date.available2019-05-07T00:11:45Z
dc.date.copyright2014en_NZ
dc.date.issued2014en_NZ
dc.description.abstractA key focus in transforming the profession of ICT to one of contributing to a sustainable future is the education of students who may think and act as sustainable practitioners in computing. An important understanding in this is the relationship between ethics and sustainability in the student intake. This forms a baseline upon which higher education can build. It is argued that sustainability can be considered ethics expanded in time and space but it is not previously known if an ethical understanding relates to an ecological worldview or to desires for contributing to sustainability. This paper reports on a survey of the first year intake of a New Zealand polytechnic (n=52) and explores the link between ethics and sustainability in freshman students in their first week of higher education. A measure of ethical naivety was constructed based on standard measures of naive ethics (legalism, egoism, agency and relativism), the responses to this were compared to the standard measure of ecological worldview, the New Environmental Paradigm. The implications for education for ICT4S are discussed.
dc.identifier.citation29th International Conference on Informatics for Environmental Protection (EnviroInfo 2015), Third International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S 2015), Copenhagen, Denmark, 7-9 September 2015, pp. 120-131.
dc.identifier.doi10.2991/ict4s-14.2014.15en_NZ
dc.identifier.isbn978-94-62520-22-6en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/12489
dc.publisherAtlantis Pressen_NZ
dc.relation.urihttps://www.atlantis-press.com/proceedings/ict4s-14/13433en_NZ
dc.rightsThis is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license.
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccessen_NZ
dc.subjectEducation; New Environmental Paradigm; Ethics; Ecological worldview
dc.titleAn Ethical Basis for Sustainability in the World Views of First Year Studentsen_NZ
dc.typeConference Contribution
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