Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2010
Publication Title
Journal of Learning in Higher Education
First Page
95
Last Page
108
Additional Publication URL
http://jwpress.com/JLHE/JLHE-OnLineIssues.htm
Abstract
In 1986, Stephen Satris’s article, "Student Relativism," means to "offer analysis of, and suggest some methods for dealing with, a quite particular and peculiar problem in teaching philosophy…I speak of the problem of student relativism." (Satris, 1986, p. 193) The problem has not gone away.
However, psychological research suggests that the problem of relativism, a problem especially critical for teaching business ethics (or any other class in applied philosophy) is not insolvable. This paper, extending earlier work by R. McGowan, provides a brief account of research by Lawrence Kohlberg and William Perry on the structure of thought exhibited by students, gives evidence of that structure, and offers pedagogical strategies for overcoming that structure and attaining moral minimalism in the classroom.
Rights
This article was originally published in Journal of Learning in Higher Education, 2010, Volume 6, Issue 2.
Recommended Citation
McGowan, Richard, "Pedagogical Strategies for Teaching Moral Minimalism" (2010). Scholarship and Professional Work - Business. 189.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/cob_papers/189
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