Teaching Ethical Theory and Developing Moral Competence
Educating for Ethical Survival
ISBN: 978-1-80043-253-6, eISBN: 978-1-80043-252-9
Publication date: 4 December 2020
Abstract
Three aspects of teaching ethics are discussed. It deals with reflection, multicultural classrooms, and narrative. The first aspect acknowledges that trying to help people recognise moral issues and have the courage and capacity to respond is harder than teaching and examining theoretical learning. The second, whether we seek to develop a ‘new’ ethical framework that fits all situations and recognises the differing traditions of global classrooms and marketplaces or we acknowledge that there are different underlying values which are hard to reconcile. The third aspect, somewhat provocatively, is whether we would be better off using novels or TV series rather than textbooks for the teaching of ethics.
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Acknowledgement
This paper retains many of the conversational features of three ‘notes for presentation’ prepared for the seminar and on which it is based. It contains more self-references than I would like as these were included in the ‘notes’ as reminders.
Citation
Harris, H. (2020), "Teaching Ethical Theory and Developing Moral Competence", Schwartz, M., Harris, H., Highfield, C. and Breakey, H. (Ed.) Educating for Ethical Survival (Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations, Vol. 24), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 133-138. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1529-209620200000024009
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:Emerald Publishing Limited
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