EDLD 703--Policy Analysis--3 credits--Spring 2001
SESSION 7:  March 31

Reading assignment before March 31
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.shriver.org/Research/SocialScience/Staff/Wertz/ethics.htm]
Brief introduction to the work of Carol Gilligan [ http://moon.pepperdine.edu/gsep/class/ethics/gilligan/gilligan.html]
Moral Reasoning and Moral Development (a slide presentation) [ http://www.ets.uidaho.edu/center_for_ethics/gilligan/]
Reinventing Government from a Feminist Perspective: Feminist Theoryand 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: Rethinkingthe 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 LawrenceM. Hinman [http://www.acusd.edu/ethics/diversity.html ]
Dancing on the Edge. An interview with Elizabeth Debold [ http://www.wie.org/j10/deb.html]
Edited
Ethics Updates by Lawrence M. Hinman.  Designed primarily to beused by ethics instructors and their students. It is intended to provideupdates on current literature, both popular and professional, that relatesto ethics. [http://ethics.acusd.edu/]
 

Written assignment before March 29 (a) Identify one (or at most two)main points chapter 14 of Stone and (b) Ethics for Non-Ethicists,  and (c) the work of Carol Gillian.  (d) Identify the possible implications for leadership of the article by DeLysa Burnier.  Post to the Discussion Board by 5:00pm March 29.  (e) One paragraph identifying an ethical issue where the solution is not clear. Have enough hard copies for everyonein class.

Get the approval of the instructor for the policy issue you wish touse for your April 8, assignment.  Hard copy of one or two sentences.  (I will consider policy issues that are not related to equity.)

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 opportunityto share with the class the ethical issue they have identified and to seekinput from their classmates on the issues. A key part of these discussionswill center on how attention to relationships might influence the considerationsof 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 assistancewith special attention to issues of ethics and social justice.

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