The Center for Ethics & Education

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Web Name: The Center for Ethics & Education

WebSite: http://ethicsandeducation.wceruw.org

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To foster and support work that brings the tools and perspectives of contemporary moral and political philosophy to bear on issues of educational policy and practice. READ MORE Debating Education: Is There a Role for Markets? (David Schmidtz Harry Brighouse) In this book, Center Director Harry Brighouse and co-author David Schmidtz offer two contrasting arguments about how market-based reforms can improve education policy. The authors also show how data and observation can be made relevant to a discussion of ethical principles. Democratic Discord in Schools: Cases and Commentaries in Educational Ethics (Meira Levinson Jacob Fay, editors) Democratic Discord presents eight normative cases of complex dilemmas drawn from real events designed to help educators practice the type of collaborative problem solving and civil discourse needed to meet the challenges of democratic education. Each case also features a set of six commentaries written by a diverse array of scholars, educators, policy makers, students, and activists with a range of political views. Educational Goods: Values, Evidence, and Decision-Making (Harry Brighouse, Helen F. Ladd, Susanna Loeb, Adam Swift) Co-authored by two philosophers and two social scientists, this book addresses the question of what educational decision-makers should be trying to achieve. The authors argue that education should aim to balance “educational goods” and “childhood goods,” and from there, show how to think clearly about how those goods are distributed and propose a method for combining values and evidence to reach decisions. Moving Up Without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility (Jennifer M. Morton) This book, written by Center fellow, Jennifer Morton, examines the ethical costs of upward mobility often born by working-class, low-income, and immigrant college students. These costs include broken ties with family and friends, the severed connections with former communities, and the loss of identity. Drawing upon philosophy, social science, personal stories, and interviews, Jennifer Morton reframes the college experience, factoring in not just educational and career opportunities but also essential relationships with family, friends, and community. Finding that student strivers tend to give up the latter for the former, negating their sense of self, Morton seeks to reverse this course. She urges educators to empower students with a new narrative of upward mobility—one that honestly situates ethical costs in historical, social, and economic contexts and that allows students to make informed decisions for themselves. Parenting to a Degree: How Family Matters for College Women’s Success (Laura T. Hamilton) In this book, sociologist Laura Hamilton examines the parenting approaches of mothers and fathers from all walks of life —from a CFO for a Fortune 500 company to a waitress at a roadside diner. As she shows, parents are guided by different visions of the ideal college experience, built around classed notions of women’s work/family plans and the ideal age to “grow up.” Analyzing the effects of each of these approaches with clarity and depth, Hamilton ultimately argues that successfully navigating many colleges and universities without involved parents is nearly impossible, and that schools themselves are increasingly dependent on active parents for a wide array of tasks, with intended and unintended consequences. The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges are Failing Disadvantaged Students (Anthony Abraham Jack) While Ivy League schools are increasingly admitting a more diverse student body, Anthony Jack shows how the struggles of less privileged students continue long after they’ve arrived on campus. Despite their lofty aspirations, top colleges hedge their bets by recruiting their new diversity largely from the same old sources, admitting scores of lower-income black, Latino, and white undergraduates from elite private high schools like Exeter and Andover. These students approach campus life very differently from students who attended local, and typically troubled, public high schools and are often left to flounder on their own. Drawing on interviews with dozens of undergraduates at one of America’s most famous colleges and on his own experiences as one of the privileged poor, Jack describes the lives poor students bring with them and shows how powerfully background affects their chances of success. Jack shows how university policies and cultures can exacerbate existing inequalities and provides concrete advice to help schools reduce these hidden disadvantages. The Aims of Higher Education: Problems of Morality and Justice (Harry Brighouse Michael McPherson, editors) This book brings together an exemplary set of essays on the changing role of higher education in America today. The contributors tackle questions such as: What are the proper aims of the university? How can the university serve as a model of justice? Contributors include: Amy Gutmann, Kyla Ebels-Duggan, and Lionel McPherson. Winner of the 2017 Frederic W. Ness Award from the Association of American Colleges and Universities Dilemmas of Educational Ethics: Cases and Commentaries (Meira Levinson Jacob Fay, editors) Editors Levinson and Fay have developed an excellent resource for teaching professional ethics. At the heart of the book are six richly described, realistic accounts of ethical dilemmas that have arisen in education in recent years, paired with responses written by noted philosophers, empirical researchers, policy makers, and practitioners. Family Values: The Ethics of Parent-Child Relationships (Harry Brighouse Adam Swift) In their book Family Values: The Ethics of Parent-Child Relationships (Princeton, 2014) Center Director Harry Brighouse and Adam Swift argue that parent-child relationships produce the “familial relationship goods” that people need to flourish. Children’s healthy development depends on intimate relationships with authoritative adults, while the distinctive joys and challenges of parenting are part of a fulfilling life for adults. Reasoning: A Social Picture (Anthony Laden) We use reason to solve problems and reach conclusions; we also reason when we are responsive to those with whom we live. In Reasoning: A Social Picture, Center Associate Director Anthony Laden invites his readers to think about reasoning on its own terms: as a species of conversation that is social and ongoing, in which we invite others to accept that our words speak for them as well. Education, Justice and Democracy (Danielle Allen and Rob Reich, editors) Education is a contested topic, and not just politically. For years scholars have approached it from two different points of view: one empirical and the other philosophical. Co-edited by Robert Reich and Senior Fellow Danielle Allen, Education, Justice, and Democracy offers an intensive discussion by highly respected scholars across empirical and philosophical disciplines. The Political Classroom (Diana E. Hess and Paula McAvoy) Introducing political issues into the classroom is pedagogically challenging and raises ethical dilemmas for teachers. Diana E. Hess and Center fellow Paula McAvoy argue that teachers will make better professional judgments about these issues if they aim toward creating “political classrooms,” which engage students in deliberations about questions that ask, "How should we live together?" Winner of the 2016 AERA Outstanding Book and the 2017 Grawemeyer Award for Education Understanding Student Rights in Schools: Speech, Religion, and Privacy in Educational Settings (Bryan Warnick) Senior Fellow Bryan Warnick examines how student rights in three areas—free speech, privacy, and religious expression—have been addressed in policy, ethics, and the law. Starting with the Tinker decision Warnick develops education criteria that schools can use when facing difficult questions of student rights. Social Studies Today: Research and Practice, 2nd Edition (Walter Parker, editor) Senior Fellow Walter Parker is the editor of Social Studies Today, a volume that will help practitioners and scholars think deeply about contemporary social studies education. This collection invites readers to think through some of the most relevant, dynamic, and challenging questions animating social studies education today. 1025 West Johnson Street, Madison, WI 53706 cee@wcer.wisc.edu 608-263-2709 The Center for Ethics & Education is housed within the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at the School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison . Photos by UW-Madison, University Communications, Jeff Miller and Bryce Richter. © Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System

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