SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY ?

ETHICAL ISSUES IN EDUCATION

(Cat. #97994)

Regular Summer Semester, 1994

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Instructor: ?

T. Kazepides

(May 2—July 29)

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Office: ?

MPX 8662

Wednesday, 17:30-21:20

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Phone: ?

291-4517

Location: MPX9S11/12

PREREQUISITE:

60 hours of credit (Students with credit for EDUC 436 may not take EDUC 437 for further credit).

OBJECTIVES:

The aim of the course is to determine the domain of moral education and to examine it's 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 nonnative character of education

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Peters, "The Justification of Education"

2) Religion and moral education

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Rachels,

Ch.

4

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Kazepides, "Religious Indoctrination & Freedom"

3) Moral education in relation to "Values education"

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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

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Rachels, Chs. 1 & 2

5) Subjectivism in Ethics

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Rachels, Ch. 3

6)

Utilitarianism and moral education

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Rachels, Chs. 7 & 8

7)

Are there absolute moral principles?

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Rachels, Chs. 9, 10, 12, 13

8)

The place

of

principles in moral education

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REQUIRED TEXTS

1) James Rachels, The Elements of Moral Philosophy. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Publishing.

2) Handouts