Tools for Teaching Ethics in Service Learning

Explore the strengths and perceptions of ethics in service learning while delving into teachable moments for ethical reflection. Learn about the Toolbox Approach pioneered by the Rutland Institute for Ethics, featuring tools such as the Consequences Tool, Respectful Treatment Tool, and Aspirational Tool. Enhance your understanding of ethical decision-making and discover ways to address ethical issues effectively in educational settings.

• Ethics
• Service Learning
• Education
• Toolbox Approach
• Ethical Reflection

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1. Thinking it Through Tools for Teaching Ethics in Service Learning With Teddi Fishman, Director of the International Center for Academic Integrity

2. Developed in collaboration with Lorelei Swanson The Rutland Institute for Ethics The Pearce Center for Communication The National Center for Dropout Prevention & The International Center for Academic Integrity

3. Strengths of Service Learning Real Applied Complicated Messy

4. Perceptions of Ethics Not my field Subjective Risky

5. Teachable Moments: Ethics and Reflection in Service-Learning (by T. Fishman & L. Swanson) Written to give teachers tools they can use to address ethical issues comfortably while at the same time providing students with a ethical framework they can transfer to other ethical dilemmas they face.

6. Toolbox Approach pioneered by the Rutland Institute for Ethics 1. Consequences Tool 2. Respectful Treatment Tool 3. Aspirational Tool

7. Toolbox Approach pioneered by the Rutland Institute for Ethics Consequences Tool Asks, what will bring the most good to the most people? and what are the foreseeable consequences positive and negative of the different choices?

8. Toolbox Approach pioneered by the Rutland Institute for Ethics Respectful Treatment Tool Asks, how would I want t be treated? and, what if the shoe were on the other foot?

9. Toolbox Approach pioneered by the Rutland Institute for Ethics Aspirational Tool Asks, what would someone I admire do in this situation and, which course of action will help me become the person I would like to be?

10. Source: Convergence begets confidence comes from R. Barnett. (1990). The virtues of redundancy in legal thought, 38 Cleveland State Law Review, 153(190), 154-155

11. Steps in the Toolbox Approach: 1.Identify 2.Analyze 3.Justify 4.Decide

12. Steps in the Toolbox Approach: 1. Identify What are the Issues? Who are the Stake-holders? 2. Analyze Use the tools to analyze options 3. Justify What are the benefits and costs of the various options? 4. Decide Take (responsible) action

13. Make ethical decision-making part of community conversations to help build climates of ethical action