Essays and Research Papers on Ethics

This is a 5 page paper on ethical issues faced in adult education. Ethical issues are of great importance in the process of adult education. Through the process of adult education, adult learners and their educators must determine what courses, learning processes and goals can be established for content and throughout this process social and ...

A 3 page paper discussing ethical dilemmas teachers face; their ethical responsibilities and how they should solve their ethical dilemmas. Glasser's (1997) admonition succinctly summarizes other authors' advice to be authentic and accessible, and to model ethical behavior so that students have opportunity to learn in that manner as well. Bibliography lists 7 ...

This 3 page paper reports research about gender and moral reasoning and using the PROM across cultures. The research about how gender affects moral reasoning is contradictory. There is very little research about how culture affects prosocial moral reasoning. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 3 page exploration of the ideological basis of this organization. Two specific questions are addressed: What does the NAEYC say about DAP that fits in with the philosophy of education? and What does the NAEYC mention in its code of ethical conduct that will help to frame someone's professional behavior?

A 14 page contention that a code of ethics, despite considerable skepticism within the field, is a much-needed intervention in adult education. This paper provides the framework within which that code of ethics must be implemented and emphasizes the importance of training and evaluation to insure that it is. Bibliography lists 10 sources.

An 8 page paper that presents a teacher's personal philosophy of moral education and a discussion of issues related to moral education. The writer mentions the CELS goal of encouraging critical thinking. Topics discussed include the reluctance of teachers to discuss character or moral education and why they are reluctant. The writer also presents models ...

A 3 page paper which examines a case study of plagiarism in adult education. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 5 page paper which discusses how stereotyping people by gender, sexual orientation, and age leads to at least some form of discrimination in the workplace. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

This 6 page paper discusses what the things are, social and practical, that lead the government to make ethical decisions, and why that is important. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 3 page paper that discusses the government shutdown, Oct. 1-16. The writer discusses how law, justice, and ethics fit into the scheme of this shutdown. A specific example of how it hurt one business owner is provided. Ethics and justice are defined and discussed. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 3 page paper which examines the government’s role in determining the morals of a nation. The paper focuses on abortion. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 4 page discussion of the perceived phenomena of over criminalization, the perception that our police, prosecutorial, and judicial time, personnel, and resources are being diverted to an excess in attempts to regulate public morality. The author of this paper contends that if we consider history and what is occurring and has occurred not only ...

A 5 page paper that seeks to prove that Immanuel Kant would support both Stella Liebeck's case and Congress' subsequent tort reform laws, simply because they meet his altruism ideals for citizens and government under his laws of citizen duty to act under the laws and slow government reform. This paper claims that Kant ...

An 8 page discussion of the morality of abortion. The author presents the assertion that government is charged with deciding morality. This assertion is backed up by philosophers ranging from Socrates to Plato to Immanuel Kant. The case is made that government has decided that abortion is legal and therefore it must ...

An 18 page paper which argues that ageism affects the medical treatment received by the elderly in this country, and other countries as well. The paper presents information relating to how the elderly are treated as a whole, through the workplace, government, and society, which serves to help support the problems with ageism as it involves medical treatment. An ...

This 9 page report discusses the Nuremberg Code and its ethical basis. The Code has proven to have a significant impact for the past fifty years in regards to how modern medicine and governments view humane medical experimentation. The individual principles of the Code are listed in the report. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

A 4 page piece on how the utilitarian ideal, which states that individual rights must be given up for the greater good of all, has been applied to the recent anti-smoking agenda in America. The utilitarian images applied include: policy not backed by research, but applied in the case of children and public smoking ...

This 4 page research paper/essay draws upon research to argue that it would be morally, as well as legally, just for the federal government to give back Native American lands to tribes whose treaty rights were violated. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 4 page consideration of the question of whether everyone should be entitled to health care regardless of their socioeconomic status. This paper argues that, indeed, healthcare should be a universal right. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This is a 4 page paper that provides an overview of decision making ethics for healthcare executives. Ethical dimensions of leadership and relationship management are explored. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 15 page analysis of the numerous issues interlacing health care delivery. The author observes that while these issues are most often addressed from a strictly business approach, a philosophical analysis is often warranted. The utilitarian philosophies of John Stewart Mill are compared with John Rawls’ two principles of justice, principles that contend ...

A 10 page consideration of the use of drugs such as Modafinil (Profigil), Methylphenidate (Ritalin), and Amphetamines (Adderall). This paper discusses the negative impacts of such use. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

This 19 page paper considers uses the frameworks of consequentionalism including utilitarianism and of deontology as proposed by Kant to examine the role of healthcare professionals and whether they should confine themselves exclusively to action which are ‘good’. This bibliography cites 13 sources.

This 12 page report discusses the debate regarding who or who should not receive certain forms of medical treatment or health care and the many questions the issue presents. In this climate of ostensibly “compassionate conservatism,” far too many people, in a wide array of life circumstances, are without access to, much less the money to afford ...

This 3 page paper evaluates an ethical quandary submitted by a student. Theories of utilitarianism and deontology are used. Bibliography lists 5 sources.