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Session Description

This interactive session  highlighted a student-led exploration of right-versus-right ethical dilemmas and how story-telling and communication helps fuel relationships in a highly diverse culture. At CFS, The School at Church Farm, students gathered, shared and led discussions about ethical dilemmas with peers. Doug Magee provided ideas for replicating this process in your school, discussed his observations of the negative and positive outcomes of this activity, and suggest ways to measure the efficacy of this activity in the future.

Intended Learning Outcomes

• Gaining concrete steps for starting a peer-led dilemma discussion group
• Understanding challenges and successes to peer led dilemma discussions
• Practicing with right-versus-right ethical dilemmas

Highlights

• Learning how to work as a community by shared ethical problem solving
• The Asian vs. American perspective on plagiarism
• Importance of making people comfortable with dilemmas and problem-solving discussions

Tips

• Remember that in Right-versus-Right you still have to make hard decisions
• Emphasize the value of taking time to understand why things are done
• Recognize that values can be viewed in multiple ways
• Keep in mind you can’t approach every situation the same
• Seek differences in your school population: diverse cultures provide interesting dilemmas
• For Boarding Schools, the boarding element elevates the need for cultural norms
• Emphasize the power of common language

Tools

• Dilemma Paradigms
• Resolution Principles
• Stories about school and social dynamics

Replicable Practices

• Acknowledging there is a right-versus-right
• Practice dialogue / dilemmas
• It is necessary to examine a problem from more than one angle
• Dilemma discussions with faculty

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Artifacts

Prezi Presentation

Dilemmas–Dilemmas from this session will be available soon, please check back, or click here to receive updates as additional conference content becomes available

Related Activity

Peer Led Dilemma Discussions–Please check back soon this activity is currently being developed, or click here to receive updates as additional conference content becomes available

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