ARL

Semester:

97-1

Instructor: T. Kazepides ?

Office: 8642mpx

Tel: 291-4453

E-mail: tasos_kazepides@sfu.ca

Section: E1.00 Catalogue #77350

PREREQUISITE

60 credit hours

COURSE DESCRIPTION

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.

OUTLINE OF TOPICS

1.

THE NORMATIVE CHARACTER OF EDUCATION

* Scheffler, "The Concept of the Educated Person" (1995).

2.

THE PREREQUISITES OF MORAL EDUCATION

• Kazepides, "On the Prerequisites of Moral Education: A Wittgensteinean Perspective".

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

3.

RELIGION AND MORAL EDUCATION

* Rachels, (Ch.4).

* Kazepides, "Religious Indoctrination & Freedom".

4.

CULTURAL RELATIVISM AND MORAL EDUCATION

* Rachels, (Ch. 1 & 2).

5.

SUBJECTIVISM IN ETHICS

* Rachels, (Ch. 3).

6.

UTILITARIANSIM AND MORAL EDUCATION

* Rachels, (Ch. 7 & 8).

7. ARE THERE ABSOLUTE MORAL PRINCIPLES

* Rachels, (Ch. 9 & 10).

8. THE ETHICS OF VIRTUE

* Rachels, (Ch. 12).

REQUIRED READINGS

1.

Rachels, James. The Element of Moral Philosophy. Toronto: McGraw Hill Publishing Co. ISBN 0-07-051098-9

2. Handouts.

RELATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Peter Singer, A Companion to Ethics

• Mike Martin, Everyday Morality

• Louis Pojman, Ethics: Discovering Right and Wrong

• David Carr, Educating the Virtues

• Edmund Pincoffs, Ouandaries and Virtues

• Paul Johnston, Wittgenstein and Moral Philosophy

• Roger Straughan,Can We Teach Children to be Good?

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Semester 96-2 Session: Regular

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Instructor: H. B a i

EDUC

437 - 4 Ethical Issues in Education

Section: E1.00

PREREQUISITE

60 credit hours

Office: 8648mpc

Tel: 291-3395

Fax: 291-3203

E-mail: heesoon_bai@sfu.ca

Scheduled Final Exam: No

COURSE DESCRIPTION

It has even been argued that we should conceive of the whole of education as a moral project. This might be a bit of

hyperbole, but in it we readily recognize the wisdom that, beside rendering us rational and practically competent,

education should further us in the direction of becoming moral beings, able to lead personally and communally

harmonious lives. This course explores philosophically challenging issues underlying the conception of moral life and

moral learning, a particular focus in this course rests on the notion, increasingly emphasized in contemporary ethics,

that moral perception, emotion, and self-formation are prerequisite to the whole of moral performance. Also, we shall

examine the notion (as a special case of self-formation), central to Buddhism, Taoism, and to an extent Confucianism,

that compassion-based morality requires overcoming of the autonomous, separate self.

OBJECTIVES

Topics:

1. Historical survey

2.

Moral perception

3.

Emotions in morality

4.

Empathy and compassion

5.

Morality as transformation of self

6.

Morality as deconstruction of the egoic conception of self

REQUIREMENTS

One long paper or two small papers.

READINGS

Reserved readings and articles will be available in the SFU library.