The objective of the syllabus for the 2020 national exam in philosophy is to describe the mandatory learning outcomes of the philosophy programme at every HAVO school. 'HAVO' refers to the secondary school trajectory at pre-higher vocational level in The Netherlands.
Curriculum description
Ethics in Dutch HAVO schools
The syllabus of the 2020 Dutch national exam in philosophy describes the three main domains of the curriculum: philosophical anthropology, ethics and social philosophy.
| Author / creator | Curator | Date |
|---|---|---|
| College voor Toetsen en Examens | Floris Velema | 09/2019 |
Aims and objectives
Content
The syllabus describes the three main domains of the philosophy curriculum: philosophical anthropology, ethics and social philosophy. The ethics programme, as described on page 7 (Subdomain C1), contains the following:
Central concepts and distinctions
Central concepts: good, happiness, virtue (Aristotle), justice, utility (utilitarianism), pleasure (hedonism), autonomy, duty (Kant), morality;
Central concept pairs: egoism and altruism, good and evil, values and norms, descriptive and prescriptive, intrinsic and instrumental values, universalism and relativism.
Materials and resources
For each school subject in The Netherlands, a similar document can be found on the website of the College voor Toetsen en Examens (CvTE), the Dutch quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation charged with administering the exams for Dutch secondary education institutions. The link below refers to the philosophy syllabus.
Location
The syllabus describing the learning outcomes of the philosophy programme is leading in the development of the curriculum in each HAVO school in The Netherlands.
Time
Apart from the three domains of the philosophy curriculum, this document contains a description of the main topic of the national exam in philosophy. For the time period 2018-2021, the topic for the national exam is personal identity ('persoonlijke identiteit').