Service-Learning Community: Ethics and Identity | Tuesday 3/29 12:30
Service-Learning Community with Emily Eddins
Ethics and Identity
Come to a special meeting of the Service-Learning Community. With special guest Dr. Chad Wiener, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, we will consider the ethical dilemmas of implementing service-learning and the potential impacts on our own, our students’, and our communities’ identities. We’ll introduce multiple perspectives, among them virtue ethics, in which the good of the action is both the agent's good and the recipient’s good.
In addition, we will consider the notion that serving the community is to everyone's advantage, since the aim is the good of the community. This, of course, can quickly become messy, since we live in a society that allows individuals to have different conceptions of “the good.” So, part of the ethical dilemma of service-learning is both forcing students to do community work that is not part of their conception of the good as well as forcing the community to react to our imposition of the projects we would like to see occur rather than ones that interest them (e.g. viewing the community as a laboratory for own academic projects rather than choosing projects in dialogue with them). On the other hand, part of community-based learning is character building - not only learning how to problem solve, but how to work with others effectively. This improves the self, while at the same time contributing to the public good or the good of another. In this workshop, we will discuss character building, and service-learning, as overcoming our dichotomy between altruistic action and selfish action.
When: Tuesday, March 29 from 12:30-1:30pm
Where: Gornto 217, or via Web conference
To register: Visit the CLT Events Calendar at http://clt.odu.edu/facdev/calendar.php . Log in with your MIDAS ID.
For more information: Email clt@odu.edu or phone Susan Boze at 757-683-3172.
Posted By: Alison Schoew
Date: Mon Mar 21 14:20:52 EDT 2016