ETHICAL ISSUES IN EDUCATION

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(E1.00)?

(Cat. #37386)

Summer Session, 1993

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Instructor: Dr. Tasos Kazepides

(June 28—August 6)

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Office: ?

MPX 8662

Monday/Wednesday, 5:30-9:20 p.m. ?

Phone: ?

291-4517 (office)

Location: MPX 9511 ?

291-0315 (home)

PREREQUISITE:

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. The

paper is due on the last day of classes.

COURSE OUTLINE:

1)

The normative character of education

• Peters, "The Justification of Education".

2)

Religion and moral education

• Rachels, ch. 4.

• Hamm & Elliott, "Moral Education Without Religion !

--A debate.

• Kazepides, "Religious Indoctrination & Freedom".

3)

Moral education in relation to "Values education"

• Kazepides, "The Logic of Values Clarification".

• Hamm, "Moral Education as the Achievement of Virtue".

• Kazepides, "On the Prerequisites of Moral Education: A Wittgensheinean

Perspective".

4)

Cultural relativism and moral education

• Rachels, chs. 1 & 2.

5)

Subjectivism in Ethics

• Rachels, ch. 3.

6)

Utilitarianism and moral education

• Rachels, chs. 7 and 8.

7)

Are there absolute moral principles?

• Rachels, chs. 9, 10, and 11.

8)

The place ofprinciples in moral education

• Peters, "Moral Principles and Moral Education".

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REQUIRED TEXTS:

1)

James Rachels, The Elements of Moral Philosotthv. Toronto: McGraw-Hill

Publishing Co.

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