Spring 2027

Ethics and Education

Examines ethical questions in education, including justification, equity, and decision-making authority, while introducing analytic tools used by educational ethicists.

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Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 David O'Brien4.1/5

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 3.76 GPA, 93.1% A/AB (n=29 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Define the ethical and political context of formal and/or informal education in the US and/or in a global context—that is, how considerations of ethics and justice bear on educational policy and practice

  • Relate educational justice to broader conceptions and theories of social justice, both in the liberal tradition and its critics, and to issues of contemporary controversy in educational theory and practice

  • Describe how various kinds of educational inequalities are unjust and why

  • Formulate and communicate research-based arguments on topics in ethics and education.

  • Use library resources in order to locate relevant academic source materials.

  • Synthesize and articulate ethical questions in education, and improve written and oral communication of such questions to public audiences

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EDPOL 147

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Professors

Spring 2027

David O'Brien

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 3.76 GPA, 93.1% A/AB (n=29 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

DAVID O'BRIEN is recorded teaching in Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 3.76 GPA, 93.1% A/AB (n=29 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Justification of educating people
  • Equity in education
  • Authority in educational decision-making
  • Educational justice and social justice theories

Skills

  • Use analytic tools for investigating foundational and applied questions in educational ethics.
  • Evaluate major views on foundational and applied issues in educational ethics.
  • Formulate and communicate research-based arguments on topics in ethics and education.
  • Use library resources to locate relevant academic source materials.

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EDPOL 147 · Spring 2027

Ethics and Education

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Recorded 2026-10-14

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