Developing core competencies with the Ethics Bowl Perspectives from British Columbia

Abstract

How can we best promote our students' intellectual development in the current environment? The ongoing curricular reform in BC proposes an answer, albeit incomplete, to this question. After reviewing the guiding principles of the new curriculum, I will describe an activity that has recently been implemented in BC--the High School Ethics Bowl--and I will explain how it fosters an integrative development of each core competency emphasized in the new curriculum.