Abstract:

The author aims at the description of Ethical Education teaching introduction realized at primary and secondary schools in the Slovak Republic. This subject creates a main supporting area for pupil and student´s moral development. Besides these education aspects, the author points at the importance of critical and analytical thinking processes development within this class as a mean of helping and enabling to deepen the understanding and internalization of moral values and norms. The author presents fundamental baselines for pupil and student´s moral development program in Slovakia, exploring its dominant goal orientation, content structure and methods of realization. The author pays attention also to an Ethical Education teacher implementing different educational approaches in comparison to teachers of other subjects emphasizing also different didactic approach based on the experiential learning and its reflection. This reflection ends up in the analysis of moral values, moral norms and principles.

Keywords:

Moral education, ethical education, critical thinking, Slovakian educational program.