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Education 437_1 

Ethics In Education 

Summer Session 1977 

Course Information: 

Instructor: ? 

Don Cochrane ? 

Dates: July 

6 -

Aug 12 

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Time: Mon & Wed. 

12:30 - +:30 p.m 

Course Description: 

Serious consideration will be given to the nature and status 

of moral judgments; ? 

this analysis will be used to investigate the 

possibilities of moral education in schools and to confront the 

several value dimensions of school counselling. 

Required Texts: 

A.R.C. Duncan, ? 

Moral Philosophy (paperback) 

John Wilson, ? 

Moral Thinking ? 

(paperback) 

R.S. Peters, ? 

Reason and Comparison (paperback) 

Additional Reading: articles relevant to particular topics will be 

handed out in class or will be available on reserve in the library. 

Requirements: (1) short review of a book on 20th C. ethics. 

(2)

one class presentation. 

(3)

one major research paper on a topic of the 

student's choosing. 

Topics for the End Paper: ? 

students may undertake a practice oriented 

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topic (such as constructing a values education course for Grade Eight) 

or a more theoretical subject (here students are not restricted to the 

field of philosophy; they may select a topic in cognitive developmental 

psychology, social learning, theory, sociology, history and so on). 

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