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    EDUCATION
    437-4
    Ethics and Education.
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    Summer Session,
    1979
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    Instructor: Tasos Kazepides.
    The aim of this course is to examine the normative character of
    education, to demarcate the domain of moral education, and to
    consider its nature and its various components. The course should
    be valuable to teachers, prospective teachers and all serious
    students of education.
    Requirements
    1.
    There are no prerequisites for the course apart from 60 hrs. lower division' credit
    2.
    A term paper of about 15 typewritten double-spaced pages is due
    one week before the last day of classes. Students may choose to
    write 2
    or
    3
    shorter term papers instead.
    3.
    A short seminar presentation.
    4. Required Texts:
    a)
    Bernard Williams, Morality: An Introduction to Ethics, New York:
    Harper and Row Publishers, 1972
    (paperback).
    b) Xeroxed handouts.
    Course Outline
    1.
    The normative character of education.
    2.
    The justification of education.
    3.
    Moral education in relation to values education.
    4. Religion and moral education.
    5.
    Socialization and moral education.
    6.
    Common escapes from moral thinking.
    7.
    Moral principles and moral education.
    8.
    Language and moral education.
    9.
    Form and content in moral education.
    10.
    Kohlberg's theory of moral education.
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