EDB172 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Meta-Ethics, Moral Realism, Moral Reasoning
Ethics and Education
Thik aout our urret or future teahig otet… how a ethial issues, oers, or
decisions do you think you will need to make?
• Ethical issues - education and social class
o Macro ethical issues:
• Private schools?
• Should federal govt give so much money to private schools?
• Make more effort to broaden the classed elements of schooling culture?
• Compensate for social class when organising university entrance?
o Personal ethical issues:
• Should I spend at least part of my career teaching in a low SES school?
• To what extent will I allow my academic expectations be set by the socio-
economic status of the school I teach at?
• Ethical issues - education and race/ethnicity
o Macro ethical issues:
• More multilingual approach to education?
• More money spent on Indigenous schooling?
• More effort to employ teachers from more ethnically diverse backgrounds?
• Where do we stand on the issue of Islamic dress for girls within state schools?
o Personal ethical issues:
• Should I spend at least part of my career teaching Indigenous children?
• To what extent am I prepared to discriminate, in a positive way, in order to help
alleviate issues of cultural disadvantage?
• To what extent will I allow my academic expectations be set by the cultural
backgrounds of my pupils?
• Ethical issues - education and sex/gender
o Macro ethical issues:
• Should we have single sex schools?
• Should boys be required to study home economics?
• Should girls be required to study manual arts?
• Should sexist teachers be sacked?
• Should we make more effort to limit the gendering aspects of schooling?
o Personal ethical issues:
• To what extent will I allow my own understanding of appropriate gender conduct
to affect my approach to schooling?
• Is it appropriate to date a fellow member of staff?
• Ethical issues - education and inclusion
o Macro:
• Should we have special schools?
o Personal:
• What extent will I go beyond mere rhetoric in making my classroom a truly
inclusive place?
• Ethics:
o a term often used synonymously with 'morals'
o Body of theoretical study
o Set of principles, derived from moral values
• Three branches of ethics:
o Meta-ethics: An investigation into the nature of ethical judgements (what re these
things?)
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