ED 718 - Values and Ethics in Education

3 Credit(s)

This course examines in detail how one justifies ethical choices and the nature of controversy resulting from differences in ethical perspective. It examines the role of education in relating values to behavior, and of personal choice to social choice. It looks at policies that purport to pursue various educational values, the conceptions of justice underlying them, and their relationship to both the mechanisms and actualities of benefit-cost distributions in our society.