SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

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EDUCATION 437-4

Ethical Issues In Education

Summer Intersession, 1989

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Instructor: ?

Dr. Tasos Kazepides

(May 8 - June 16) ?

Office: ?

MPX 8659

Mondays and Wednesdays

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Phone: ?

291-3641

5:00 p.m. - 9:20 p.m.

Location: MPX 8651

Prerequisites:

60 hours of credit

Objectives

The aim of this course is to demarcate the domain of moral education and to examine its

nature and its various components. The course should be valuable to teachers, prospective

teachers, educational administrators and all serious students of education.

Course Requirements

a) A short seminar presentation.

b)

A follow-up final paper of about 10-15 typewritten double spaced pages on a topic

approved by the instructor. Students are encouraged to submit the first draft of their

paper to the instructor for comments and then rewrite it for marking.

Course Outline

1. The normative character of Education

Peters, "The Justification of Education"

2. Moral education in relation to Values Education

a)

Hamm & Daniels, "Moral Education in Relation to Values Education"

b)

Hamm, "Moral Education as the Achievement of Virtue"

3. Religion and Moral Education

a)

Kazepides & Hudson "Educating, Socializing and Indoctrinating" -- A debate

b)

Hamm & Elliott, "Moral Education Without Religion" -- A debate

4. The Logic of Values Clarification (Kazepides)

5. Amoralism, Subjectivism and Relativism

From B. Williams, Morality

6. Moral principles and moral education (R. S. Peters)

7. Moral procedures and moral components

Dunlop & Wilson -- A debate

8. Form and content in moral education (R. S. Peters)

9. The notion of developmeht and moral education (Bailey)

10. Language and Moral Education

Hare & Warnock -- A debate

Required Texts

Handouts will be distributed in class.

N.B.

This course is also offered by Graduate Programs, Educ. 833-5, Seminar in Social and Moral

Philosophy and Education