Course Description
Introduces graduate students in education to major foundational and post-foundational frameworks in ethics. Major movements, conversations, and debates on the ethical dimension of education, especially in relation to important issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Athena Title
Ethical and Justice Frameworks
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in ETAP 7420E
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
1. The students will be able to demonstrate a broad understanding of ethics as an area of philosophic inquiry through a conceptually grounded survey of key western and non-Western ethical frameworks. 2. The students will be able to analyze ethical and justice issues in education from diverse ethical standpoints to better serve the goals of diversity, equity, and inclusion in education. 3. The students will learn how ethical literacy can be integrated with content literacy in curricula.
Topical Outline
• Moral Philosophy: Foundational Issues • Deontology and Consequentialism • Virtue Ethics and Feminist Ethics of Care • Post-structural Ethical Frameworks • Nonwestern Ethical Frameworks • Integrating Ethical Literacy in Curricula • Theories of Justice • Restorative Justice: Punishment and Due Process • Distributive justice: Equal Opportunity and Democratic Community • Ethical Issues and Quandaries in Education o Intellectual Freedom o Diversity: Multiculturalism and Religion o Democracy, Professionalism, and Teaching with Integrity