/WN FRASER UNIVERSITY
Summer Semester 1998
EDUC 437 -4
Ethical Issues in Education
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Dr. T. Kazepides
Office: MPX 8642
Tel:
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291-4453
EO1.00 ?
E-mail: kazepide@sfu.ca
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).
• Kazepides, "On the Nature and Function of Education Theory".
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, Quandaries and Virtues
Paul Johnston, Wittgenstein and Moral Philosophy
Roger Straughan,Can We Teach Children to be Good?
(Cross-listed with Educ 833)
