35.063 - Revitalizing Ethical Education in Today's Globalizing Ethos

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Our presentations foreground, respectively, (a) a cosmopolitan perspective that can help young people generate ethical values through the ways they conduct themselves, (b) a human rights perspective on “humaneness” and “uniqueness” that can promote a recognition of dignity, (c) a vision of how the teaching of language and literature can constitute in its own right an ethical education, and (d) a cosmopolitan educational framework that pivots around the cultivation of ethical openness and humility. We treat “ethics” as a comprehensive orientation, having to do with how we endeavor to realize, in community with others, our aesthetic, moral, and reflective capacities.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Moral Development and Education

Chair

• Matthew J. Hayden, Drake University

Papers

• Ethical Values in Education: A Cosmopolitan Perspective - Gonzalo Obeillero, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Human Rights Through Human Actions: Humaneness and Uniqueness at the Center of Human Rights Education - Rebecca Adami, Stockholm University

• The Role of Language in the Development of Other-Oriented Cosmopolitan Sensibilities - Suzanne S. Choo, Nanyang Technological University - National Institute of Education

• Cultivating Ethical Openness and Humility in a Globalizing World - David T. Hansen, Teachers College, Columbia University

Discussant

• Kristján Kristjánsson, University of Birmingham