The reflective project is an in-depth body of work produced over an extended period and
submitted towards the end of the IBCP. It is the product of the student’ own initiative and should
reflect his or her experience of the IBCP. The reflective project is designed to draw together key
elements of a student’s wider schedule of study, specifically the career-related studies,
community and service and approaches to learning. It is intended to promote high-level research
and writing skills, intellectual discovery and creativity.
The reflective project investigates and focuses on the ethical dimensions of an issue arising from
the student’s complementary career-related studies. Students need to identify an issue of interest
that they would like to explore in greater depth that arises from their career-related studies.”
(www.ibo.org/ibcc).
TOPIC SELECTION
Step 1: Select an issue related to your IBCP career-related BTEC path.
Step 2: Formulate a non-ethical question that simply asks you to describe what you know
about the issue.
Step 3: Redraft your question so that it just asks for one solution to the problem or issue.
Step 4: Try to think of the ethical dilemma associated with the issue and open up the
question so it leads to multiple answers.
Step 5: Now focus on the ethical dilemma and enlarge it so that the question now goes far
beyond the limits of the original observation. Your question should have more
than one right answer and require the use of argument.
• Examine the ethical dimension associated with the issue. Consider more than one view
or one side of the ethical issue.
• Remember, that it is the ethical dimension of the issue, and not the issue itself, which is
the primary focus of the reflective project!
• Develop a personal and relevant evaluation of the ethical dimension of the issue
