Teaching Ethics & Social Justice Workshop
Concord, NH
Friday, March 28, 8:30am - 3:00pm &
Saturday, March 29, 8:30am - 3:00pm
About the Workshop
In this two day workshop, Professor Gottlieb will lead participants through a variety of social justice issues with a special focus on issues appropriate for the classroom.
Participants in this conference will
- examine case studies posing difficult moral questions
- look at environmentalism as a context in which secular and spiritual, individual and collective resources coalesce
- consider ways of enabling students to confront the moral and
- political questions they will face as adults
- come away with a number of techniques to make issues come alive for students
With a variety of examples that can be used in the ethics or social justice classroom, four questions will be looked at specifically:
- What does it mean to be moral?
- Why should I be moral?
- What is a just society?
- How can I—or we—help create one?
Particular topics will include the difference between morality as law and morality as virtue; liberal as opposed to communitarian understandings of social justice; the ways in which secular and religious perspectives on social justice can complement each other; and the role of attachment to work or career in posing difficult moral questions (ie. the ways some of the careers our students most covet might place them in challenging moral dilemmas).
Workshop Presenter(s)
Lodging
Participants are encouraged to seek their own lodging. CSEE recommends The Holiday Inn because of its close proximity to St.Paul’s.
Location/Transportation
The workshop will be held at St. Paul’s School in Concord, NH.
Participants flying into the area can use Manchester Airport or Boston’s Logan Airport. Concord Trailways provides an inexpensive, clean and quick bus service to Concord from Boston. Shuttle service is available through On Demand Service from Manchester Airport. Contact CSEE for details.