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Big Ethical Question Slam 2: Who Won?
Submitted by jadelay on Fri, 01/20/2012 - 20:11.The cold weather could not keep the 100 or so Big Ethical Question fans away from Slam 2. If you didn't see it, you won't know who won. It was close. Second place went to Arbor Hospice Ethics team, in part for their response to a question about whether it is ethical to omit qualifications as important as having a doctorate from your resume...because you don't want to be placed in the overqualifed dead resume pile. Who won?
Find out by watching the video when we release it soon.
Michigan Ethics Economy Initiative
What Better Life Than Teaching Ethics?
Submitted by jadelay on Tue, 11/22/2011 - 18:09.
"If I major in philosophy or ethics, what will I be able to do? Other than teach?"
We didn't pose those questions to distinguished ethics teacher Brian Miller. Such questions would never occur to us. After all, what better life than teaching ethics and philosophy?
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Featured Podcasts
'Getting The Story Right' with EWA Public Editor Emily Richmond
Submitted by jadelay on Tue, 11/22/2011 - 15:27.
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Generational Leaders Series
Education Reform in Michigan: Should Education Solve Economic and Social Challenges?
Submitted by admin on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 19:59.
Our first Generational Leaders Dine and Discuss program about the state of education in Michigan featured a remarkable and engaging group of panelists.
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Working Ethics Podcast Series
Teacher Prep: Learning The Profession's Ethical Demands
Submitted by jadelay on Tue, 11/22/2011 - 15:32.
In America, we rely on multiple institutions and as many pathways to train new educators in the fundamentals of the teaching craft. Reformers have routinely called for more systematic approaches, prominent among them transforming teacher education to model the clinical training, research practices and mentoring of doctors.
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The World Premiere Big Ethical Question Slam Photo Gallery:The Teams
The teams in the Big Ethical Question Slam were, quite simply, terrific. Critical. Thoughtful. Funny. Eloquent. Temperate in their competitive zeal. Knowledgeable. Clever. Patient with the fact that this was our first time. And they will be first in our hearts forever for helping us get the Slam started and for making it worthwhile.
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