Essay Should Ethical Understandings and Critical Thinking be Taught in Schools – Arts & Humanities Assignment Help

Assignment Task

Responding to the following questions:
Should ethical understandings and critical thinking be taught in schools? Why or why not?
How, if at all, would you approach teaching ethics education in your specific learning area?
Your argument must respond to some of the required readings from Module 2, and should indicate whether you agree or disagree with them. You may also refer to additional relevant academic research, though this is not essential. It is important to communicate your arguments in a manner appropriate for a professional audience and accurately reference using APA (version 7) format. 

Your presentation should consist of an argument that discusses and evaluates current theory, research and education practice through addressing the following points:

• the aims and purposes of education, including the role that education plays (and/or could play) in global and sustainable futures and the development of the ‘good citizen’.
• what kinds (if any) of critical thinking and ethical understandings schools ought to teach, in order to meet the goals that you identified in point 1.
• how (if at all) schools ought to teach the knowledge/skills/understandings, that you identified in point 2.
• an approach to teaching ethics that can be applied in your specific learning area. 
   

RATIONALE
This assessment task will assess the following learning outcome/s:

• be able to communicate abstract and complex theoretical ideas and arguments to a professional audience.
• be able to discuss and evaluate current theory and research.
• be able to apply ethical decision making and reasoning to discussions in education.
• be able to discuss the role of education in global and sustainable futures.