Educating Translation Ethics: A Neurocognitive Ethical Decision-Making Approach

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  • Author(s): Zhou, Meng (ORCID Zhou, Meng (ORCID 0000-0002-5816-9904)
  • Language:
    English
  • Source:
    Interpreter and Translator Trainer. 2022 16(4):391-408.
  • Publication Date:
    2022
  • Document Type:
    Journal Articles
    Reports - Evaluative
  • Additional Information
    • Availability:
      Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
    • Peer Reviewed:
      Y
    • Source:
      18
    • Education Level:
      Higher Education
      Postsecondary Education
    • Subject Terms:
      Translation; Ethics; Language Processing; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Teacher Education; Moral Values; Decision Making; Competency Based Education; Intuition; Program Development; Dental Schools; Universities; Cognitive Psychology
    • Subject Terms:
      Minnesota
    • Accession Number:
      10.1080/1750399X.2022.2030534
    • ISSN:
      1750-399X
      1757-0417
    • Abstract:
      Translation ethics today is an area of growing concern, so is its education. In the new millennium, ethics has become an explicit and integrative component of translator education. Meanwhile, the objective of translation ethics education has shifted from preaching abstract, universalistic translator codes of ethics to training translation students' ethical sensitivity and reflexive moral judgement (i.e., ethical decision-making). This study advances translation ethics education pivoted around students' translational ethical decision-making competence (TEDC) by first providing a definition and a competence framework for TEDC and then sketching a competence-based education programme targeting translation students' TEDC. In completing the tasks, this article draws theories and practices from cognitive psychology, where ethical decision-making has been studied extensively. On the one hand, it borrows the Neurocognitive Model of Ethical Decision-making to theorise the dual components of TEDC, i.e., competences of intuitive and rational ethical decision-making. On the other hand, it synthesises the relevant literature on intuition education and rationalist moral education to design a tentative TEDC-targeted translation ethics education programme. It argues that the proposed programme could be put to test in practice, and ethical decision-making holds the potential to become a productive entry point into translator ethics education.
    • Abstract:
      As Provided
    • Publication Date:
      2023
    • Accession Number:
      EJ1370888