Ethics and the search for values

Authors

  • Alex IP Yuen Kwong National University of Singapore

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24112/ajsotl.33291

Abstract

JNUSTA: In your view, how ethics could best be taught in school?

Alex: To me, ethics involves “understanding what is right or wrong, and what is good or bad”, and then “doing the right and good things”. Fundamentally, to teach ethics, teachers must focus not only on the economic aspect of education but also the developmental aspect of education, helping students to develop a meaningful value system. Values form the basics of ethical behaviour, because values are basic convictions that give a person judgemental ideas about right or wrong, and good or bad, and ethics is the way the values are acted out. Ethical behaviour is acting in ways consistent with one’s personal values and the commonly-held values of the organisation and the society. (Abstract taken from first paragraph of document)

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Published

2013-08-01

How to Cite

IP, A. Y. K. (2013). Ethics and the search for values. Asian Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 3(3), 105–107. https://doi.org/10.24112/ajsotl.33291

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 3 (2013)

Section

Conversations on Education

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