ETHIC: A procedure for ethical decision making in Society & Environment
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2010
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Knight, S.
Collins, C.S.
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SEAA Biennial Conference Proceedings, 2010, pp.1-10
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SEAA Biennial Conference with SASOSE Annual Conference: Learning for Life, Sustainability, Global Citizenship and Social Justice (19 Feb 2010 - 21 Feb 2010 : Adelaide, South Australia)
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When teaching social and environmental education topics such as the treatment of refugees, global warming, child labour or animal rights, we surely do so with the aim of promoting ecological sustainability or social justice. We argue that achieving such aims essentially involves raising ethical questions: What are our moral obligations to people seeking asylum, to future generations or people who are geographically distant and culturally different from us, or to animals farmed for the production of food? Yet, fear of indoctrination and worries about conflicting parental values often leads to teachers shying away from raising and dealing with such questions in the Society & Environment classroom. In this paper we describe the theoretical underpinnings of a model designed to support students to make well reasoned ethical decisions about even such complex and controversial ethical issues. The ETHIC model safeguards us against the charge of indoctrination while allowing us to meet the fundamental aims of the Society & Environment curriculum area.
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Copyright 2010 The Authors