"Teaching Democracy in Polarizing Times"
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Read Meira Levinson and Jacob Fay's new article in Educational Leadership on the challenges democratic educators face during times of intense political polarization
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About JiS
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Justice in Schools (JiS) is designed to affirm that ethics matter, and then to help educators and policymakers reason through the ethical dilemmas they face. JiS doesn’t necessarily provide answers. Rather, Justice in Schools helps educators and policy...
A Parallel Universe: Conspiracy Theories and the Limits of Education
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Snapshot: Conspiracy theories play an increasingly important and often highly problematic role in political debates in liberal democracies. As a student at a German high school becomes deeply immersed in the world of conspiracy theories in the wake of the...
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Justice in Schools has six goals: Help educators develop an “ethical repertoire” that helps them identify and respond to dilemmas of justice, just as they have a pedagogical repertoire that helps them respond to instructional challenges. Illuminate for...
What Would You Do?: Seeing Green
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Snapshot: This second episode of a video podcast series, produced in partnership with the Ethical Schools podcast, includes a dramatized version of our case "Seeing Green" along with a discussion of the case led by Professor Meira Levinson. Should science...
Meira Levinson
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Meira Levinson is a professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) and the founder and faculty director of the EdEthics/Justice in Schools initiative at HGSE. She is a normative political philosopher who works at the intersection of civic...
Tatiana Geron
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Tatiana Geron is currently the Design Studio Research and Evaluation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Her work examines how teachers resolve ethical dilemmas on-the-ground in classrooms and schools...
Liz Block
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In her role at EdEthics, Liz manages the operations of staffing, programs, partnerships, and related research. She also supports a growing network of scholars and practitioners in bridging connections, sharing ideas and resources, and collaborating in...
Listen to Meira Levinson discuss educational ethics on TeachLab
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Meira Levinson sits down with Justin Reich, director of the MIT Teaching Systems Lab, to discuss what educational ethics looks like in practice. Listen to the podcast here. From TeachLab: "Dr. Meira Levinson is a normative political philosopher, writer...
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Justice in Schools began in 2012, and will likely be actively under development until at least 2017. It is organized around a set of intensively-researched, normative case studies of classroom-level, school-level, and district-level decisions about...
EdEthics Leadership Discussions
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Ethics & Educational Leadership Join us for two case discussions about dilemmas in educational leadership Educational leaders face increasingly complex challenges as they seek to navigate political polarization, community disagreement, and changing state...
Teaching Democracy in Polarizing Times
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By using case studies to discuss ethical dilemmas with their colleagues, educators can better prepare to address political and civic challenges in their schools.
Educators have become increasingly stymied by the challenges of teaching both in a democracy...