Moral Educators Teaching for Nonviolence and Eco-Justice: Exploring Ethical Identity and Agency

• In Event: Roundtable Session 25
  In Roundtable Session: Moral Education: The Role of Teachers and Topics

Abstract

Through a critical review of the literature to explore the complex moral themes of nonviolence and ecojustice education, this conceptual paper deepens and expands understanding of the ethical nature of educators’ work by considering the core commitments and agency of moral educators — envisioning that they have a crucial role in working to transform the current crisis of violence in human interactions, discourse, as well as an ecology of violence toward all of life and the Earth. Moreover, it explores the transformation of personal development and beliefs as a process in which moral educators move beyond their initial assumptions of themselves and their practices to a far more complex understanding of their ethical existence, commitment, and agency.

Authors

• Pamela Bolotin Joseph, University of Washington - Bothell

• Edward R. Mikel, Antioch University Seattle