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Direct linkRowena A. Azada-Palacios – Ethics and Education, 2025
This paper is a reflective response to Tena Thau's suggestion -- in her 2024 piece 'Moral Philosophy as War Propaganda' -- that philosophy has little to teach about the war in Gaza (and, by extension, similar cases of widespread, horrific human suffering). I first reconstruct one of the arguments that Thau makes in her piece. I then show that her…
Descriptors: War, Foreign Countries, Philosophy, World Views
Manninen, Bertha Alvarez; Mulder, Jack, Jr. – Liberal Education, 2019
The authors, Bertha Alvarez Manninen, a pro-choice associate professor of philosophy at Arizona State University, and Jack Mulder Jr., a pro-life professor of philosophy at Hope College in Michigan have argued with each other since graduate school about abortion and other issues, while respecting each other's stances and friendship. In the current…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Persuasive Discourse, Debate, Controversial Issues (Course Content)
Download full textHelkenberg, Davin; Schoenberger, Nicole; Kooy, S. A. Vander; Pemberton, Amanda; Ali, Karim; Bartlett, Sarah; Clair, Jillian; Crombleholme, Sydney; Dee, Alison; DePierro, Kristy; Greenwood, Timothy; Lobzun, Meagan; Petersen, Cassandra; Saunders, Sabrina Redwing; Tarzi, Mary; Ward, Kristyn; Zip, Stacey – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2018
This paper was produced as a collaborative project by a Progressive Librarianship class at an ALA-accredited Masters of Library and Information Science (MLIS) program located in Canada. Recent research in LIS has identified a need for issues of social justice to be discussed more prominently in LIS education. From a uniquely student perspective,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Information Science Education, Library Science
Costley, Kevin C.; Killins, Pam – Online Submission, 2010
The controversial concept of evolution makes up only a small part of the science curriculum stated in Arkansas. During the past few years, the curriculum topic of "Intelligent Design" has caught the attention of many science teachers in the public schools. The Intelligent Design Movement has been successful in attracting the attention of…
Descriptors: Science Curriculum, Evolution, Creationism, Religious Factors
Senechal, Diana – American Educator, 2010
As long as there have been public schools, there have been reformers of public schools. All too often, they have insisted on sweeping changes; enamored of their bold, new idea, they haven't considered whether anything established ought to endure. The result? A century of faddish ideas, but little real progress. Among today's most vocal reformers…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Objectives
Munson, Lynne; Bornfreund, Laura – American Educator, 2010
This article presents the authors' critique of lessons proposed by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21). The authors initiate a discussion about content that they hope will play out in schoolhouses and statehouses across the country. They take on a different task: they present a handful of lesson ideas from P21 that could enhance studies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Scott, Eugenie C. – McGill Journal of Education, 2007
Teachers are often exhorted by creationists to "teach the controversy." Although such encouragement sounds on the surface like a proposal for critical thinking instruction, the history of the creationist movement in North America belies this claim. Rather than teach students to analyze and evaluate actual scientific controversies, the intent of…
Descriptors: Criticism, Creationism, Critical Thinking, Controversial Issues (Course Content)
Peer reviewedCarter, Sarah Hanko; McCarthy, Barbara – TESOL Journal, 1994
In reader responses to a previous article, it is suggested that cultural content is less important than the method by which material is presented to students; McCarthy argues that students must be free to develop good evaluative thinking. (two references) (LB)
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Course Content, Critical Thinking, Cultural Awareness
Winn, Ira J. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2004
Most teachers shy away from the discussion of controversial issues in the classroom. But, Mr. Winn fears, if students are not given the guidance and opportunity to engage in critical thinking and discourse in school, they will not be capable of carrying out their responsibilities as citizens in a democratic society. In this article, the author…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Critical Thinking, Controversial Issues (Course Content)
Peer reviewedLazere, Donald – College Composition and Communication, 1992
Outlines a model for incorporating critical thinking about politics within a rhetorical schema in writing courses. Provides an outline of four units of study on political semantics, psychological blocks to perceiving bias, models of biased and deceptive rhetoric, and locating and evaluating partisan sources. (SR)
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Course Content, Critical Thinking, Cultural Differences
Peer reviewedGregory, Marshall – College Teaching, 2005
This essay argues that teachers would be more effective at promoting students' willingness to work hard at course content that seems to them remote and abstract if teachers explicitly presented that content to students more as a means to their education rather than as the aim of their education. Teachers should confront the fact that most of the…
Descriptors: Course Content, Teaching Methods, Higher Education, Models
Peer reviewedHafferty, Frederic W.; Franks, Ronald – Academic Medicine, 1994
Issues concerning inclusion of ethics instruction in the medical school curriculum are discussed, including whether ethics should be presented as a body of knowledge or matter of professional identity and the "hidden curriculum" of medicine as a form of socialization. Recommendations for the structuring of an ethics curriculum are…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Course Content, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Design
Hooley, Diana – English Journal, 2007
One of the most important educational objectives of high school is to teach critical-thinking skills, and no class does this better than strategic debate. Professor Mike Allen, lead author in a definitive study on debate and critical thinking, lauded debate's promotion of critical-thinking skills. Additionally, researcher Joe Bellon discusses the…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Critical Thinking, High Schools, Thinking Skills
Peer reviewedHickey, Tom; Brecher, Bob – Studies in Higher Education, 1990
The paper challenges recent criticism of higher education curricula as "biased." Teachers are encouraged not to attempt to rid their teaching of such "bias" but to state and defend positions, however controversial, for the furthering of students' critical capacities. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Bias, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Critical Thinking
Apple, Michael W.; Taxel, Joel – Illinois Teacher of Home Economics, 1987
The authors argue that decisions about curriculum and teaching are not merely technical matters, but require careful thinking. They discuss some of the issues of content and what schools teach different groups about power. (CH)
Descriptors: Course Content, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development, Ethics
