Ethics in Early Childhood Education

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Ethics in Early Childhood Education
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Barriers to studying Ethics

• a tendency to view ethics as something inherent
  within us and thus not a quality that requires
  study or improvement
• a belief that right and wrong are clearly defined
  and yield prescriptive rules and practices, thus
  contemplation is not required, just the
  discipline to do the right thing and
• a disposition to settle for currently popular or
  comfortable solutions rather than face the
  daunting task of taking into account the multiple
  dynamics in the early childhood environment to
  individualize decisions for each child and
  situation.

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Barriers to studying Ethics

• a tendency to view ethics as something inherent
  within us and thus not a quality that requires
  study or improvement
• a belief that right and wrong are clearly defined
  and yield prescriptive rules and practices, thus
  contemplation is not required, just the
  discipline to do the right thing and
• a disposition to settle for currently popular or
  comfortable solutions rather than face the
  daunting task of taking into account the multiple
  dynamics in the early childhood environment to
  individualize decisions for each child and
  situation.

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Barriers to studying Ethics

• a tendency to view ethics as something inherent
  within us and thus not a quality that requires
  study or improvement
• a belief that right and wrong are clearly defined
  and yield prescriptive rules and practices, thus
  contemplation is not required, just the
  discipline to do the right thing and
• a disposition to settle for currently popular or
  comfortable solutions rather than face the
  daunting task of taking into account the multiple
  dynamics in the early childhood environment to
  individualize decisions for each child and
  situation.

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Collaborative Learning

• Choose one of the 5 roles
• Discussion Director lead the discussion and
  report back to class
• Literary Luminary connect this case study w/
  the Position Statement
• Word Wizard carefully analyze this text for key
  words
• Connector look for ways this case relates to
  other parts of our textbook
• Artist/Illustrator just do it
• Read the case study
• Discuss and Respond

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• Young children need teachers who are not
  machines, not simply memories. They need people
  with searching hearts and seeking mind, people
  who are always trying better to understand
  themselves, their job, their young charges, and
  the world around them James L. Hymes, Jr.