Dilemmas of Educational Ethics

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Wed, 08/31/2016 - 11:30am to 12:00pm
Dilemmas of Educational Ethics
Dilemmas of Educational Ethics

 

Host Gene Bradley speaks with Jacob Fay, co-author with Meira Levinson of "Dilemmas of Educational Ethics." Fay discusses thorny educational dilemmas that are too frequently considered “administrative” in nature—such as do students who have not met certain benchmarks get promoted if the likely result would be their leaving school—but that are on second glance clearly ethical decisions carrying significant ramifications and therefore requiring more than passing thought. I

While ethics is generally considered the domain of philosophers, school is often the first institution where our children consciously experience and consider ethical ideas like "respect" and "justice." And though administrators and teachers certainly do their best, their training often leaves them ill-prepared—and the growing demands of their work unable—to grapple with or even recognize ethical challenges in their midst.       

In Dilemmas of Educational Ethics, Harvard Professor Levinson and her colleague Fay reveal special education programs, for instance, not as a question of student support, but of inclusion; and school lotteries not as issues ofbalance or data analysis, but equity and fairness. While the distinction may seem academic, the co-authors contend that it makes all the difference, both in how we go about engaging with such questions as well as the resolutions we ultimately reach.

http://www.justiceinschools.org/

           

 

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