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BEDA-001: EDUCATIONAL ETHICS

01 Credit Course Duration: 15 Hours

Grade: No grade but completion status will be mentioned in the result card in respective semester.

Teachers: Sunil Kumar Singh, Seema Singh, Meenakshi Singh, Alok Gardia. Email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],

[email protected]

Office & Contact Information: 0542-2361982, 2361189 (Office),09450580931(Self) Office Hours: Monday – Friday by appointment

Course Meeting Days and Time: Monday to Sunday (As per pre-declared schedule in the respective semester)

Mission:

The mission of this course is to prepare professionals with 3 C’s (Competence, Conscience, and Compassion), to transform lives/individuals, schools/institutions, communities and society. Rooted in the Indian tradition and the values which led to development of Banaras Hindu University (BHU), core values of reflective practice, scholarship, diversity, ethical conduct, social justice, fraternity and collaboration will guide both theory and practice.

Goals:

4. To prepare professionals who will work competently with individuals who have a variety of strengths, experiences, and challenges, those with diverse backgrounds, and those in greatest need;

5. To develop positive habits of mind, identify, and apply best practices in the field, and engage in critical reflection on practice; and

6. To become leaders sensitive to the ethical and social consequences of their decisions. Course Descriptions:

This course is designed to provide Pupil Teachers (B.Ed. Students) with an exposure to ethical theories and the ethical problems faced in their profession (particularly as a teacher and administrator in school) and life. For ensuring close interaction maximum forty students in each semester will be able to participate in this course. Classes will cover the following:

• Concept of ethics, theories and applications,

• personal ethical frameworks for making professional decisions,

• issues related to creating ethical cultures in educational institutions (schools, teacher education departments, colleges, and universities); and

• finally listening to the presentations of individuals and teams on creating these ethical cultures in various educational settings.

Class activities will generally consist of a case, a lecture and discussion of the required readings in assigned small groups. It will also involve an ethics process, case, simulation, creative or narrative experience. Activities will be led by concerned teachers and invited resource persons from varied fields of experience and will be executed in a variety of large and small group configurations.

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Professionals in education are moral stewards .How can we say this? Educational ethics invites educators to think on this issue and also about, what role they play in achieving and maintaining a more democratic and ethical society through education. Investigations into controversial ethical issues and dilemmas prepare educators to critically think through potential situations that may arise with students, parents, administrators, peers and other people in the society It will also help one to use basic ethical theories and principles to develop a method for making ethical decisions within the context of administration, faculty, and student life moral problems.

Course Objectives/Expectations/Learning Outcomes:

At the end of this course, students/Pupil Teachers will have explored and understood:

6. Some Traditional ethical theories and principles appropriate for an applied ethics course in education ( Goals 1,3 );

7. Ethical issues and problems facing various stakeholders inside schools. (Goals 2,3); 8. Critical assessment of ethics cases from the individual experience in educational

institutions from field experience (Goal 3);

9. The ability to develop a method for making ethically sound decisions in education and school practice (Goal 2,3); and

10. Approaches to creating an ethical community on a school campus or within an educational institution (Goal 3,4).

Course Requirements/Assignments:

F. Evaluation of the learning achieved in this course will be determined in three ways: 1. Participation in the course will be assessed in three ways: class participation in

small group discussions on questions from the course readings, peer projects, and team projects. This will be assessed by observation.A reflection on a personal academic ethics case, and an evaluation of your own ethics learning.(suggested length 02-04 pages).

2. Ethical Issue in Educational or Teaching Practice or Policy. Select a major current issue in educational or teaching practice or policy. Define the issue and the interested and affected parties. Following the methods discussed in class, and looking at the issue from several lenses, analyze the ethical dimensions and make recommendations for courses of action.

3. Viva-voce examination at the semester end.

G. Course completion will be determined by the following guidelines: Attendance is 80%, all attended lectures are recorded in written form in file and checked by in-charge, and student appears for viva-voce with file before examiner.

H. Course Contents:

Unit I: Introduction to Educational Ethics (05 Hours: August-Sept./Jan.-Feb.) • Meaning , concept and need .

• Ethics and teaching profession, Academic integrity. • Foundation of Ethics and Moral Agency

• Moral Development(Some traditional thoughts) : Righteousness , Rights and Duties, Virtue Ethics and Character

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Class Activity: Small group discussions, peer discussion [draft required for peer not instructor]

Unit II: Educational Institutions and Institutional Ethics (05 Hours: Sept.-Oct./Feb.- March)

• Dilemmas in and outside classrooms: Educational Policies and Practices, Teaching and Classroom Practices.

• Ethical dilemmas in educational institutions: Schools, Colleges, Universities etc. • Institutional ethos and image building.

Class Activity: Screening of film/films, documentaries, working in small groups for identification and discussion on ethical issues in education hence to identify dilemmas and reach a solution by consensus, discussion on educationally ethical practices and recording the practices after discussion.