At 16:46 13/11/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>Jim's post includes an interesting question:
>
>"Should teaching environmental ethics entail the promotion of
>a position of commitment to an environmental ethic?"
>
>What do we think?
>
>Should values be taught?'
>Since we are human is it possible to teach without our personal values
>colouring what we do?
>What would a society become if it did not teach values?
>But How do we decide who's values should be perpetuated?
>Should education be about how to think rather than what to believe?
>
>Any takers?
>
>Yours PK
>
I would not promote a position of commitment to a particular environmental
ethic. I would try to encourage the students to become aware of a range of
approaches, their implications and the critiques of them.
In my view, this is the difference between education and training. A
training course could legitimately take a particular position and show
students how to follow it through. But this would be a risky process in
such a contested area. What would the students be left with if the
particular position fell out of favour in the years to come?
Chris
Chris Hope, Judge Institute of Management,
University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1AG, UK.
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