ETHICS AND EDUCATION
Examines a variety of ethical questions in education, including: What justifies educating people, in the first place? What does equity in education require? Who has the proper authority to make decisions about education? Introduces analytic tools that educational ethicists use to investigate foundational and applied questions. Understand and evaluate major views on a range of such foundational and applied issues in educational ethics.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: None Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Define the moral and political context of formal and/or informal education in the US and/or global context - that is, how considerations of morality and justice bear on educational policy and practice. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Relate educational justice to broader conceptions and theories of social justice, both in the liberal tradition and its critics, and to issues of contemporary controversy in educational theory and practice. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Examine which kinds of educational inequalities, if any, are unjust and why. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Define the moral and political context of formal and/or informal education in the US and/or global context - that is, how considerations of morality and justice bear on educational policy and practice. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Relate educational justice to broader conceptions and theories of social justice, both in the liberal tradition and its critics, and to issues of contemporary controversy in educational theory and practice. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Examine which kinds of educational inequalities, if any, are unjust and why. Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027