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Banja to host summer faculty ethics seminar: Teaching Ethics

This May, Dr. John Banja will host the Center for Ethics' annual faculty seminar. This year's seminar theme is "Teaching Ethics."

Topics are expected to range widely among issues including the challenge of postmodernism, classroom strategies and techniques, teaching ethics in the midst of professional socialization, and teaching decisional models versus nurturing moral agency.

The seminar will occur over alternating mornings and afternoons from May 16- 19, and May 23-25. Participants will be asked to lead a one-hour discussion of a topic of their choice and will receive a $400 stipend.

Virtually since its inception, the Center For Ethics has hosted a summer seminar for Emory faculty interested in ethics. Seminar themes have ranged widely, from traditional topics in ethical theory to specialty topics such as ethical issues in the development of academic professionals. The composition of the faculty, which usually numbers about fifteen persons, is exquisitely interdisciplinary with virtually every school or division in the university having been represented over the years. The seminar is scheduled immediately following commencement with participants given wide latitude in developing the seminar's content.

The year 2000 seminar, for example, had each faculty member responsible for leading a one-hour discussion on a reading or topic of his or her choice bearing on professional development and socialization. Six sessions, each lasting three hours were scheduled from May 16 to the 23rd with the last including dinner. A document summarizing the seminar's content is available for review.

Interested faculty throughout the university are encouraged to participate in 7 sessions, alternating mornings with afternoons, during Mary 15-18 and May 23-25. Topics expected to receive attention are the nature and value of ethical theory in a postmodernist era, contrasting moral reflection with moral behavior, "teaching" character formation, brainstorming classroom strategies, and teaching ethics beyond the classroom.

Faculty interested in participating should contact John Banja at (404) 712-4804 for further discussion.

[ Posted by John Banja at April 1, 2001 06:35 PM | More Summer Faculty Seminar articles ]

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