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| 1 | -Overview of the Search: ethics-hr | Ethical Principles & Paradigms | Planning - Case Teaching | ethics-hr | human rights, ethics, role of government, political culture, policy studies | contemporary | n/a | ||
| Summary: This overview is a specialized table of contents to assist review of database materials for lesson planning. In outreach to local high schools, USC student volunteers in the Teaching International Relations Program (TIRP) are equipped to teach analytical tools using cases and activities for decision-making and problem-solving. Because the database serves a variety of projects, custom tags will select limited collections designated for TIRP topics. Guides for selected items will point to further database resources. | |||||||||
| Source: USC CALIS | |||||||||
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| 2 | A Bill of Rights | Virtues & Values | Think-Pair-Share | ethics-hr | human rights, bill of rights, ageism, age discrimination | contemporary | United States, global | ||
| Summary: Engages students in complexity of deciding at what ages a variety of rights ought to be granted. Raises controversies of exclusion and majority/minority rights. | |||||||||
| Source: CTIR -- Center for Teaching International Relations -- du.edu/ctir Permission received to offer this activity as a sample lesson from Teaching About U.S. History, Gary Smith. | |||||||||
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| 3 | Community Involvement & Civic Engagement: Every deed makes a difference | Concept Map | Think-Pair-Share | ethics-hr, civic-ed | civic engagement, activism, volunteerism, social responsibility, foreign policy | contemporary | United States, global | ||
| Summary: Distinguishes three categories of civic engagement toward social change: relief work, development work, and political work. Clarifies difference between community service and activism. Extends to US foreign policy objectives with foreign aid (USAID). (Part of HSLC 2010: Foreign Policy & Ethics) | |||||||||
| Source: USC CALIS | |||||||||
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| 4 | Dark Knight - the Joker's Social Experiment | Ethical Principles & Paradigms | Think-Pair-Share | ethics-hr, tep option | security, ethics, virtues, preemptive strike, vigilantism, heroes and villains | contemporary | n/a | ||
| Summary: A scene from The Dark Knight from the Batman series presents a moral dilemma. The Joker is testing whether people will abandon their humanity when pushed by a choice of do or die. Using "The Boat Scene", students must determine how different responses can be morally justified according to three different ethical principles. Intended for use with materials that distinguish three ethical approaches to moral reasoning. | |||||||||
| Source: USC CALIS | |||||||||
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| ID: 660 | |||||||||
| 5 | Ethics of Right Versus Right: The Librarian’s Dilemma | Ethical Principles & Paradigms | Case Reading - Other | ethics-hr | belief systems, political culture, community vs individual rights, security vs privacy, role of government | contemporary | n/a | ||
| Summary: This 5-part activity builds quickly through a values framework to analyze ethical dilemmas: right vs. right. Each part adds a layer of reasoning to walk through the main idea: a true ethical dilemma is a choice between equally important competing values: 1) individual vs community, 2) long-term vs short-term, 3) mercy vs justice, and 4) loyalty vs truth. Whichever values we favor will reveal our ethical thinking among three main approaches to ethics: ends-based, rule-based, or care-based thinking. Includes a DEPPP chart to juxtapose multiple perspectives. This framework of "ethical paradigms" can then be applied to policy cases to examine the role of government as a balancing act where serious trade-offs are made that favor one value over another, often determined by political culture. | |||||||||
| Source: USC CALIS with passages from How Good People Make Tough Choices: Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living, Rushworth M. Kidder, 1996 | |||||||||
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| ID: 379 | |||||||||
| 6 | Human Rights Warm Up: Human Rights Squares | Ethical Principles & Paradigms | Think-Pair-Share | ethics-hr | human rights | contemporary | global | ||
| Summary: A "Human Bingo" activity where students circulate, asking each other questions in order to complete a bingo card of human rights issues. Intended as a quick introduction to an ethics activity or human rights case, or can serve as a review of a human rights unit. | |||||||||
| Source: CTIR -Center for Teaching International Relations - du.edu/ctir. Permission received to offer this activity as a sample lesson | |||||||||
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| ID: 59 | |||||||||
| 7 | NPR: Blood, Bones And Organs: The Gruesome 'Red Market' | combination | Case Reading - News & Editorials | ethics-hr, ethics-policy, tep option, tep-health | ethics, role of government, constitutional rights, medical ethics, human rights | contemporary | United States, global | ||
| Summary: Report discusses dimensions of the global trade in body parts. Case questions and activities explore the moral and practical implications of the red market (organ trade) using a breakdown of three ethical principles and a customized 4W analysis. | |||||||||
| Source: NPR copyright 2011. Melissa Block, 06-10-2011. Customized transcript by USC CALIS, 2011. Launched with NPR permission as support materials for the High School Case Teaching Initiative. Downloads are for educational use only. | |||||||||
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| ID: 622 | |||||||||
| 8 | NPR: Dilemma Of Walking Away From A Mortgage | Ethical Principles & Paradigms | Case Reading - News & Editorials | ethics-hr, tep option, gec2008 | political economy, ethics, rational choice, individual responsibility | contemporary | United States | ||
| Summary: NPR report on "strategic default" that would create "another tidal wave" of home foreclosures. Report raises the ethical dilemma to uphold your personal financial obligations vs. economic reasoning (rational choice) to cut your losses on a bad investment. Case questions includes: Using the three approaches to ethical decision-making, is strategic default morally justifiable? Part of HSLC 2012: American Renaissance in a New World and the 2008 Global Economic Crisis. | |||||||||
| Source: NPR copyright 2010. Yuki Noguchi, 11-28-2010. Customized transcript by USC CALIS, 2010. Launched with NPR permission as support material for the High School Case Teaching Initiative. Downloads are for educational use only. | |||||||||
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| ID: 564 | |||||||||
| 9 | NPR: In Asia, The Perils Of Aborting Girls And Keeping Boys | Four Worlds (4W) | Case Reading - News & Editorials | ethics-hr, ethics-policy, tep-health, tep option | human rights, ethics, medical ethics, science and society, role of government | contemporary | China, Taiwan, India, United States | ||
| Summary: Report discusses the consequences of "unnatural selection". Case questions and activities explore the moral and practical implications of sex selection using a breakdown of three ethical principles and a customized 4W analysis. | |||||||||
| Source: NPR copyright 2011. Renee Montagne, 06-15-2011. Customized transcript by USC CALIS, 2011. Launched with NPR permission as support materials for the High School Case Teaching Initiative. Downloads are for educational use only. | |||||||||
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| ID: 621 | |||||||||
| 10 | NPR: StoryCorps - A Victim Treats His Mugger Right | Four Worlds (4W) | Case Reading - Other | ethics-hr, #virtues&values | community, role of government, character analysis | contemporary | United States | ||
| Summary: Personal story of a social worker is extended to three activities: Six Pillars of Character, a 4W analysis, and the role of individuals and government in society. The 4W analysis explores: It takes a village to raise a child? but what does it take to create a village? | |||||||||
| Source: StoryCorps on NPR Morning Edition 03-28-2008. Launched with NPR permission as support materials for the High School Case Teaching Initiative. Downloads are for educational use only. Customized transcript by USC CALIS, 2008. | |||||||||
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Handout: 0387.doc
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| ID: 387 | |||||||||
| 11 | NPR: UK Surveillance Laws Raise Privacy Concerns | Ethical Principles & Paradigms | Case Reading - News & Editorials | ethics-hr, ethics-policy, tep option | security vs privacy, community vs individual rights, political culture, role of government | contemporary | United Kingdom | ||
| Summary: Report discusses implications of an aggressive surveillance policy. Questions and activities explore the moral and practical implications of surveillance using a customized 4W analysis and referencing activities that explore personal virtues and political perspectives. | |||||||||
| Source: NPR copyright 2008. Vicki Barker, 04-21-2008. Customized transcript by USC CALIS, 2008. Revised 2011. Launched with NPR permission as pilot materials for the High School Case Teaching Initiative. Downloads are for educational use only. | |||||||||
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| ID: 390 | |||||||||
| 12 | Taking Sides & Finding Balance: China’s One Child policy | Ethical Principles & Paradigms | Think-Pair-Share | ethics-hr, finding-balance | role of government, belief systems, human rights, sustainable development | contemporary | China | ||
| Summary: This is a "competing values worksheet" for clarifying where China's One Child policy strikes a balance between equally important values. The activity is based on the analytical frame for ethical dilemmas of "right vs. right" -- four ethical paradigms: individual vs community, short-term vs long-term, justice vs mercy, and truth vs loyalty. It is the role of government to balance between these values, but under what circumstances must it favor one over the other? | |||||||||
| Source: USC CALIS | |||||||||
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| ID: 443 | |||||||||
| 13 | Three Ethical Perspectives - Introduction | Ethical Principles & Paradigms | Think-Pair-Share | ethics-hr, tep core, tep option, tep-health | ethics, moral reasoning, belief systems, human rights | contemporary | n/a | ||
| Summary: Students are guided through a series of scenarios related to three ethical approaches to moral decision-making. The scenarios connect intuitive responses to more reasoned responses. A standard reference chart outlines "competing ethical principles" behind moral reasoning: consequences, rules, and virtues. Scenarios include: trolley case, transplant surgeon case, United States v. Holmes. Powerpoint facilitates steps in the exercise, connections to related database resources, and jumps to the ethics of artificial intelligence with a movie clip from I, Robot. | |||||||||
| Source: USC CALIS in collaboration with the USC Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics: Shlomo Sher, Research Associate, 2010. This lesson was originally designed for the Teaching Ethics Program (TEP) volunteers as the first in the series outreach sessions. | |||||||||
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| ID: 549 | |||||||||
| 14 | Two Worlds that Protect & Serve | Four Worlds (4W) | Think-Pair-Share | 4ir core, ethics-hr, civic-ed | governance, role of civil society, civic engagement, social responsibility | contemporary | global | ||
| Summary: A table compares government agencies in the political world with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the social world to specify the relationship between government and civil society. Central question: For the first time in history, a global civil society is gaining strength. What does that mean to you? -- Includes a 4W frame of how individuals can be actors in each world and to unpack the significance of quotes by Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin. Includes quotes by George HW Bush and Barack Obama regarding images of American society. | |||||||||
| Source: USC CALIS | |||||||||
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| ID: 546 | |||||||||
| 15 | Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Pursuing Freedom & Dignity | Concept Map | Think-Pair-Share | ethics-hr | human rights, civil rights, constitutional rights, Bill of Rights | contemporary | United States, global | ||
| Summary: An abbreviated list of UDHR articles is set in a table where students determine which articles are primarily related to either 1) freedom from fear, 2) freedom from want, or 3) human dignity to reach human potential. A second exercise -- US Amendments to the Constitution: Ensuring Political Freedom -- uses the same analytical frame for fear/want/dignity to determine the nature of constitutional rights and amendments. The guide points to a case where UDHR articles are specified. | |||||||||
| Source: USC CALIS | |||||||||
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| ID: 392 | |||||||||
| 16 | Villager’s Dilemma | Ethical Principles & Paradigms | Role Play / Simulation | ethics-hr, tep option | belief systems, human rights, governance, security, foreign policy | contemporary | unspecified war-torn country | ||
| Summary: A hypothetical scenario is used to establish five distinct ethical principles in response to a tragic ethical dilemma. Students propose different reactions and their actions are then matched to ethical principles. Steps of the activity build toward a detailed ethics table. Students then refer to the table in response to the question: Do you feel there is only one morally correct action in this case? Why or why not? Part of HSLC 2010: Foreign Policy & Ethics. | |||||||||
| Source: USC Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics: Lyn Boyd-Judson, Director, 2010. | |||||||||
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| ID: 337 | |||||||||