My ethical dilemma is based on an incident that I faced in my professional life two years ago. I was working for a Non-Governmental Organisation called Doorstep School. It was an organisation, which was affiliated to many public government schools, which served the under-privileged section of society. In India, the poverty is rampant and the government schools do not have very well qualified teachers, as the pay is not attractive. Hence, organisations like these, recruit individuals who are willing to spare a few hours of their time to teach different subjects in these schools voluntarily. In this light, I used to visit the school every weekend to teach them English.
I would teach the children in fifth grade, and I had almost forty students in my class. Over two years of
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It refers to taking into account a person’s general behaviour and motivation, rather than focusing on just one unusual event. For me, I could vouch for his consistency and overall potentials. The occurrence of one unusual event should not have overshadowed his virtues of the whole year. Furthermore, it was also act utilitarianism. It was a case where I evaluated the situation and did something that would benefit the society, without thinking about the laws that were binding me. I compared the consequences and legal implications of both situations. The exploration of consequences gave me the courage to emphasise on the virtue ethics and stand up for him.
Deontology states that upholding ones duties is what is considered ethically correct. Here my duty was just to teach and not to interfere in the administrative matters of the school. I should consider the rules of my school as the primary role. But here, there were conflicting obligations. For me, my duty was definitely to uphold the regulations of the school. Yet, I could not compromise on my duties of being a student’s mentor and confidante. This gave me the power to convince the
It can be argued that under this framework Derrick was unethical choosing to pursue a single students, perhaps for more than student teacher relations, at the expense of the remainder of his students and by extension at the expense of his fellow peers reputation. Subsequently, VW University is also implicated in unethical actions under the Utilitarian lens due to, firstly failing to intervene despite knowing about the relationship between Derrick and his student while on practicum, and secondly for failing to provide adequate screening of B.Ed candidates with respect to emotional and ethical character. In both instances lack of action by the University provided the greatest amount of good to, arguably, Derrick by not suspending or even expelling him from the program for his actions. In fact, the greatest number of people, in the case fellow student-teachers and public school students, received the least amount of good from the decision to ignore Derricks
It states that an action which is deemed right is one that has not merely some good consequences, but also the greatest amount of good consequences possible when the negative consequences are also given due considerations. According to the utilitarian principle, the righteousness of an action is solely judged on the basis of its consequences. Classical utilitarianism determines the balance of pleasure and pain for each individual affected by the action in question as well as the amount of utility for the whole
My parents were rubber tree farmers. The government owns the trees so we didn’t make much money. Every day after school, I had to go and help my parents at the farm. I didn’t have time to study for another language at home; beside, my schools didn’t allow me to take an English class. The simple reason was that I’m not a teacher’s kid.
2. An academically and socially struggling 11-year-old female student, Irina, comes to speak with the school counselor, Mrs. Moon, about her increasing awareness of herself as lesbian. Irina’s parents are conservative Catholics and the culture of the school community is likewise politically conservative. She would like to meet in a group with other gay and lesbian students in the school. As a result of the school’s emphasis on the Common Core, group counseling has been eliminated this year.
Deontology which is derived from the Greek words Deon (meaning obligation/duty) and logia (science/study) combined to be also known as duty or rule-based ethics or the study of duties or obligations. It is a branch of ethical theories that deals with ethics of conduct, which theories are based on the sort of actions people must perform. It is based on non-consequentialism where the ends do not justify the means and thus deontology is an approach to ethics in which a sense of duty or principle prescribes the ethical decision (Preston, 2007). Deontology affirms duties must be obeyed regardless of the consequences. The theory of Deontology has its flaws as well and this essay will present three criticisms of deontology namely that deontology relies on moral absolutes, allows acts that make the world a worse place, two permissible duties that are right can conflict with each other and will demonstrate these flaws with relevant case studies and dilemmas.
However, even though these are two opposing philosophies, with very different ideas governing their conclusions, we should look to learn from both and apply the knowledge we identify with, thus creating our own philosophies. In this essay I wish to do exactly that; to compare and contrast these two ideologies in order to better understand them and help others do the same. First we must understand what is Deontology. The word deontology when broken down to its roots literally means, the study of the nature of duty and obligation.
Summarise the main points of legislation and proceedures covering Confidentiality Data protection Disclosure of information When joining a school you must be aware of the legislation and procedures covering these topics and be kept up to date with them. Each pupilâ€TMs individual needs and rights as a person is important and they need to be kept safe as their welfare is a priority. All staff have taken and passed their disclosure and barring service DBS. And the school has procedures to prevent unauthorised persons entering the premises.
Besides all the more under my personal code of ethics as an educational leader; I will shields students and staff from conditions unsafe to wellbeing and security; will secures the common and human privileges of all people; I will actualizes and obeys nearby, state, and national laws; I will respects all agreement until satisfaction or discharge. I will likewise grow very much contemplated educational convictions based upon a comprehension of teaching and learning.
Consequential Ethical theory It is a part of normative ethical theories and it means that the consequence of ones behavior is an ultimate mean for anyone to judge the rightness or wrongness of that behavior. So, from the perspective of a consequentialist an ethically right act is the one that will inherit good outcome or consequence. It usually explains the saying “the end justifies the means” which means that in order to achieve a goal, take any route which leads to achieving it.
Utilitarian suggest that we make our moral decisions from the position of a benevolent, disinterested spectator. Rather than thinking about
Margarita Rodriguez Philosophy of Nursing Millers College of Nursing October 16, 2015 How does deontology relate to an individual nurse?s professional practice of nursing? According to the American Nurses Association, Deontology, an ethical theory founded by Immanuel Kant, applies judgments based on the underlying morality, or the rightness or wrongness of an action. It is based upon adherence to rules.
Utilitarianism is a teleological ethical theory based on the idea that an action is moral if it causes the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest number of people. The theory is concerned with predicted consequences or outcomes of a situation rather than focusing on what is done to get to the outcome. There are many forms of utilitarianism, having been introduced by Jeremy Bentham (act utilitarianism), and later being updated by scholars such as J.S. Mill (rule utilitarianism) and Peter Singer (preference utilitarianism). When referring to issues of business ethics, utilitarianism can allow companies to decide what to do in a given situation based on a simple calculation. Many people would agree that this idea of promoting goodness
So, what is act utilitarianism? Act utilitarianism is best defined as a value of consequences of the act when it is determining whether it is the right act and if it brings about the greatest good consequences for all. In addition, for most act utilitarian’s, they do think that even though telling the truth is a moral action , but if it brings about the greatest good for everyone from immoral acts, it can be considered as ethically moral or immoral in the eyes of the law based on situations. From the observations of the movie, the Island, an act utilitarian would view this movie based on the different situations that takes place. As an example from the movie, the Island, Jordan two delta, known as Scarlett Johansson which is the clone, in the outer world has made the right act based on the consequences in which she diversified the mind of the working policemen by saying “open the door “while holding up a gun and the military officer, Albert Laurent shoots two of the working policemen in the isolation of the outer world in order to save the lives of the lottery winner people who is caught inside the door while suffocating to death.
Introduction Animals testing have significantly contributed to the advancement of scientific knowledge in general and to biomedical progress specifically. Many example showing that laboratory animals in medical development and other aspects have significantly influenced human health and reduced suffering, for example improved diagnosis of infectious disease (Hau, Jann, Schapiro & Steven, 2002). But since 1960s and 1970s, animals testing protests has gained prominence and strength, people start to argue is it moral to continue “cruel” animal testing. Animal Testing is a Moral Act In the rest of this article, I shall apply different concept under utilitarianism try to discuss whether animal testing are moral acts. It is important to notice that (1) in this article, applying the general idea of utilitarianism which is “the greatest happiness of greatest number” and (2) the animals testing under the rules and regulations.
Ethics according to my understanding is that division of philosophy which concerns with the moral principles that guide us in terms of our behaviour and way of doing things. Ethics simply helps a person in distinguishing between the right and wrong, good and bad, just and unjust, acceptable and unacceptable. It incorporates the ethical standards or the code of ethics guiding a person into the right path by instilling discipline and other virtues in our life’s daily activities. As professional teachers we endowed with dignity and reputation with high code of conduct while practicing the noble teaching profession which also requires us to follow set of ethical and moral principles, standards and values. Ethics in education concerns with the study of ethical standards or basic principles related rooted in the education system.