DPLS 703--Policy Analysis--3 credits
Spring 2002

SESSION 6: Mar 23, ETHICS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

Reading assignment before Mar 21
Stone (1997) Chapter 14
Ethics: What is It and Why is It Important?  A Primer for Non-Ethicists
by Dorothy C. Wertz   Social Science, Ethics and Law [http://www.umassmed.edu/shriver/research/socialscience/staff/wertz/ethics.cfm]03/16/02
Brief introduction to the work of Carol Gilligan [http://hale.pepperdine.edu/~emrhodes/Gilligan/Carol_Gilligan.html]03/12/02
Moral Reasoning and Moral Development (a slide presentation) [http://www.its.uidaho.edu/stoll/gilligan/sld001.htm]
Reinventing Government from a Feminist Perspective: Feminist Theory and Administrative Reality by DeLysa Burnier.  [http://www-as.phy.ohiou.edu/FORUM/burnier.html]
Feminist Ethics by Matthew Mitchell [ feministEthics.html]

Optional reading/viewing assignment
Video presentation Carol Gilligan "Voice and Relationship: Rethinking the Foundations of Ethics" [http://ethics.acusd.edu/video/Gilligan/Lecture/Voice_and_Relationship.html] requires "Real Player"  Free software [http://www.real.com/products/player/downloadrealplayer.html?wp=dl1099&src=olderrors&lang=en#form ] (and a fast internet connection)
Feminist Ethics [ http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/f/femethic.htmInternet] Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Introductory Literature on Diversity and Ethical Theory by Lawrence M. Hinman [http://www.acusd.edu/ethics/diversity.html ]
Dancing on the Edge. An interview with Elizabeth Debold [ http://www.wie.org/j10/deb.html]
Ethics Updates by Lawrence M. Hinman is designed primarily to be used by ethics instructors and their students. It is intended to provide updates on current literature, both popular and professional, that relate to ethics. [http://ethics.acusd.edu/]
 

Written assignment before Mar 21, (a) Identify one (or at most two) main points from chapter 14 of Stone and (b) Ethics for Non-Ethicists,  and (c) the work of Carol Gilligan  (d) Identify the possible implications for leadership of the article by DeLysa Burnier.  Post to the Discussion Board by 5:00pm Mar 21.  (e) One paragraph identifying an ethical issue where the solution is not clear. Have enough hard copies for everyone in class.

Post to the Discussion Board one or two sentences that you propose to use as the topic of your assignment for Apr 6. You need the approval of the instructor for your topic. If I have not posted my approval, you will need to discuss this with me in class or by phone.  I will consider policy issues that are not related to equity. The topic should be one where you can clearly identify material from the class that you are using in your response.

Class activities: Following a discussion of what Stone, Ethics for Non-Ethicists,and the work of Gilligan, each person in the class will have the opportunity to share with the class the ethical issue they have identified and to seek input from their classmates on the issues. A key part of these discussions will center on how attention to relationships might influence the considerations of ethics. Reflections on the relationship between social justice and policy.

A brief history of U.S. policy in Southern Africa, the impact on assistance programs, and the relationship of race, politics, and foreign assistance with special attention to issues of ethics and social justice.

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