EVENING
EDUCATION 437-4
Ethical Issues in Education
SUMMER SEMESTER 1995
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T. Kazepides
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 shouldbe valuable to
teachers, prospective teachers, educational administrators, and all serious students
of education.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
a)
A short seminar presentation.
b)
A
topic
follow-up
approved
final
by
paper
the instructor.
of about
Students
10-15 typewritten
are encouraged
double
to
spaced
submit
pages
the first
on a
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I
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.
• Kazepides, "Religious Indoctrination & Freedom".
3)
Cultural relativism and moral education
• Rachels, chs. I & 2.
4)
Subjectivism in Ethics
• Rachels, ch. 3.
5)
Utilitarianism and moral education
• Rachels, cbs. 7 and 8.
6)
Are there absolute moral principles?
• Rachels, chs. 9 & 10.
7)
The ethics of virtue
• Rachels, ch. 12
P.T.O.
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8)
The prerequisites of moral education"
• Hamm, "Moral Education as the Achievement of Virtue".
• Kazepides, "On the Prerequisites of Moral Education: A Wittgensheinean
Perspective".
9)
The place of principles in moral education
• Peters, "Moral Principles and Moral Education".
REQUIRED TEXTS:
I) James Rachels, The Elements of Moral Philosophy. Toronto: McGraw-Hill
Publishing Co.
2) Handouts.
(Crosslisted with EDUC. 833)
