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Thinking it Through

Thinking it Through. Tools for Teaching Ethics in Service Learning With Teddi Fishman, Director of the International Center for Academic Integrity. Developed in collaboration with Lorelei Swanson The Rutland Institute for Ethics The Pearce Center for Communication

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Thinking it Through

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  1. Thinking it Through Tools for Teaching Ethics in Service Learning With Teddi Fishman, Director of the International Center for Academic Integrity

  2. Developed in collaboration with • Lorelei Swanson • The Rutland Institute for Ethics • The Pearce Center for Communication • The National Center for Dropout Prevention & • The International Center for Academic Integrity

  3. Strengths of Service Learning • Real • Applied • Complicated • “Messy”

  4. Perceptions of Ethics Not my field Subjective Risky

  5. Teachable Moments: Ethics and Reflection in Service-Learning(by T. Fishman & L. Swanson) • Written to give teachers “tools” they can use to address ethical issues comfortably while at the same time providing students with a ethical framework they can transfer to other ethical dilemmas they face.

  6. Toolbox Approach pioneered by the Rutland Institute for Ethics • 1. Consequences Tool • 2. Respectful Treatment Tool • 3. Aspirational Tool

  7. Toolbox Approach pioneered by the Rutland Institute for Ethics • Consequences Tool • Asks, “what will bring the most good to the most people?” and “what are the foreseeable consequences—positive and negative—of the different choices?”

  8. Toolbox Approach pioneered by the Rutland Institute for Ethics • Respectful Treatment Tool • Asks, “how would I want t be treated?” and, “what if the shoe were on the other foot?”

  9. Toolbox Approach pioneered by the Rutland Institute for Ethics • Aspirational Tool • Asks, “what would someone I admire do in this situation” and, “which course of action will help me become the person I would like to be?”

  10. Source: “Convergence begets confidence” comes from R. Barnett. (1990). The virtues of redundancy in legal thought, 38 Cleveland State Law Review, 153(190), 154-155

  11. Steps in the Toolbox Approach: • Identify • Analyze • Justify • Decide

  12. Steps in the Toolbox Approach: • 1. Identify • What are the Issues? Who are the Stake-holders? • 2. Analyze • Use the tools to analyze options • 3. Justify • What are the benefits and costs of the various options? • 4. Decide • Take (responsible) action

  13. Make ethical decision-making part of community conversations to help build climates of ethical action

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