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Tillson, John; Oxley, Laura – Theory and Research in Education, 2020
This article argues that uses of exclusion by schools in the United Kingdom (UK) often violate children's moral rights. It contends that while exclusion is not inherently incompatible with children's moral rights, current practice must be reformed to align with them. It concludes that as a non-punitive preventive measure, there may be certain…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Childrens Rights, Foreign Countries, Educational Practices
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O'Meara,Gregory J. – Creighton Journal of Interdisciplinary Leadership, 2019
Gillian Hadfield's astute Rules for a Flat World proposes a private market solution to rule-making because the current legislative or regulatory framework no longer meets the needs of a fast-paced digital economy. Further, lawyers have largely priced themselves out of the reach of many who would benefit from their services. By laying out…
Descriptors: Books, Authors, Human Dignity, Civil Rights
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De Leon, Leticia; Bennett, Kara – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2019
This paper describes a qualitative study that examined how preservice teachers engaged in a "Second Life" activity intended to help them reflect on how knowledge of human rights may affect their professional practice. This process utilized a problem-solving strategy to determine their goal-oriented character traits. Therefore, the…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Protocol Analysis, Problem Solving, Preservice Teachers
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Zozuliak-Sluchyk, Roksoliana – Online Submission, 2019
The article presents key components of a pedagogical system for professional and ethical training of future social workers, which contribute to increasing their level of professional ethics. It determines the essence of the pedagogical system, which unities the processes of forming, developing, education and learning with all forms, methods and…
Descriptors: Social Work, Caseworkers, Ethics, Standards
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Kumcagiz, Hatice; Dadashzadeh, Rahim – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
Honour is closely associated with such concepts as dignity, integrity, and morals, and also causes changes in people's attitudes and behaviours as well as in their cultural environment. The present study is intended to investigate attitudes and correlates of female honour in college students. A correlational study was conducted on 2924…
Descriptors: Correlation, College Students, Females, Student Attitudes
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Wivestad, Stein M. – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2013
What are the conditions required for becoming better human beings? What are our limitations and possibilities? I understand "becoming better" as a combined improvement process bringing persons "up from" a negative condition and "up to" a positive one. Today there is a tendency to understand improvement in a one-sided way as a movement up to the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Intimacy, Moral Values, Philosophy
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Aloni, Nimrod – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2013
In this article I propose a conception of empowering educational dialogue within the framework of humanistic education. It is based on the notions of Humanistic Education and Empowerment, and draws on a large and diverse repertoire of dialogues--from the classical Socratic, Confucian and Talmudic dialogues, to the modern ones associated with the…
Descriptors: Humanistic Education, Educational Philosophy, Dialogs (Language), Empowerment
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Bynum, Gregory Lewis – Educational Theory, 2012
In this essay Gregory Bynum seeks to show that Immanuel Kant's thought, which was conceived in an eighteenth-century context of new, and newly widespread, pressures for nationally institutionalized human rights-based regimes (the American and French revolutions being the most prominent examples), can help us think in new and appreciative ways…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Cognitive Processes, College Faculty, International Law
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Letseka, Moeketsi – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2012
The article defends ubuntu against the assault by Enslin and Horsthemke ("Comp Educ" 40(4):545-558, 2004). It challenges claims that the Africanist/Afrocentrist project, in which the philosophy of ubuntu is central, faces numerous problems, involves substantial political, moral, epistemological and educational errors, and should…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Caring, Democracy, Citizenship Education
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Snauwaert, Dale T. – Philosophical Studies in Education, 2009
The foundation upon which this discussion is based is the basic nature of democracy as both a political and moral ideal. Democracy can be understood as a system of rights premised upon the logic of equality. At its core is a fundamental belief in moral equality, a belief that all human beings possess an equal inherent dignity or worth. The ideal…
Descriptors: Democracy, Human Dignity, Ethics, Civil Rights
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Chickering, Arthur W. – Liberal Education, 2010
Recognition of the importance of outcomes related to moral and ethical development, other dimensions of personal development, and civic engagement is a result of decades of educational reform. But have colleges and universities succeeded in helping students achieve these outcomes? In this article, the author shares his personal reflections on…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Human Dignity, Moral Values
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Snauwaert, Dale – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2009
is argued that Cosmopolitan theory and its main competitor, Realism, issue from fundamentally different presuppositions. Realists presuppose that communal/national identity overrides a shared humanity to the degree that the moral consideration of others stops at the border of the society. Based upon this presupposition, Realists also assume the…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Human Dignity, Moral Values, Ethics
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Fitch, E. Frank – Philosophical Studies in Education, 2009
Disability and dependence are integral to the human experience and yet have been largely marginalized or denigrated within Western philosophy. Joining a growing counter narrative from the disability studies movement, several mainstream moral philosophers are helping to redress this error. In this essay, the author discusses ideas from four such…
Descriptors: Inclusive Schools, Disabilities, Human Dignity, Mainstreaming
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Gorsevski, Ellen W.; Schuck, Raymond I.; Lin, Canchu – Western Journal of Communication, 2012
Using rhetorical analysis in the form of an autoethnographically informed biocritique, this study applies and expands the concept of rhetorical plasticity to examine the popular museum exhibit "Bodies: The Exhibition," which is arguably the most controversial of a series of contemporary museum exhibits that feature deceased human bodies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Body, Non Western Civilization, Death
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Morris, Jay – ETC: A Review of General Semantics, 1970
Advocates a naturalistic view of man and the universe as being most consistent with general semantics; a version of a paper presented at International Conference on General Semantics (University of Hawaii, Honolulu, July 29-August 4, 1960). (RD)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Human Dignity, Moral Values, Philosophy
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