defend‚ and argue for your moral position (Justification essay) and that you demonstrate clear and consistent reasoning as well as critical thinking skills. In making good moral judgment‚ you must argue for your position (the Discovery essay) using a normative ethical theory (the Justification essay). The key to recognizing an ethical issue is to be able to conceptualize the moral problem correctly in the first place and this is what our Moral Reasoning Strategy attempts to help you do; it is a template
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influence and normative social influence. • Informational social influence or “social proof”‚ our desire to be right in situations in which the correct action or judgement is not obvious and we need information. Example: On your way to a concert‚ but not sure where the entrance is‚ lots of people are going in a certain direction‚ you follow everyone else. You follow because you lack the information so you do whatever everyone else is doing (they must know something you don’t know). • Normative social influence
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discuss some of the popular approaches to educational planning in developing countries. Introduction Educational planning is a worldwide practice found in both developing and developed countries. The developing countries and indeed all countries have placed a premium on education because of the persistent belief that formal education holds the key to national development and economic growth. In the light of this‚ the modern conception of educational planning has attracted specialists from many disciplines
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Positive and normative statements The importance of detecting bias in arguments Whenever you are reading articles on current affairs it is important to be able to distinguish between objective and subjective statements. Often‚ the person writing an article has a particular argument to make and will include subjective statements about what ought to be or what should be happening. Their articles carry value judgements; they are trying to persuade you of the particular merits or demerits of
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of normative development is a complex and much debated one. It is an issue that is continually researched by scientists and psychologists alike as they seek to understand the changing processes that shape development over the human lifespan. One of the fundamental questions that underlie this research is whether normative development actually exists. The volume of statistical data on normative development is constantly changing and growing adding greater complexity of the issue. Normative development
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POSITIVE AND NORMATIVE ECONOMICS Positive economics deals with what is with how the economy works‚ plain and simple. If we lower income tax rates in the United States next year‚ will the economy grow faster? If so‚ by how much? And what effect will this have on total employment? These are all positive economic questions. We may disagree about the answers‚ but we can all agree that the correct answers to these questions do exist— we just have to find them. Normative economics concerns itself with
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REGGIO EMILIA APPROACH A EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY I fully support the Reggio Emilia Approach model which was found by Loris Malaguzzi. This model became associated with mainstream educational practices in 1945 when the first parent-run preschool of the common people opened in Reggio Emilia‚ Italy. The Reggio Emilia Approach is an educational philosophy focused on preschool and primary education. The destruction from the war‚ parents believed‚ necessitated a new‚ quick approach to teaching their
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Normative Theories Application Normative ethical theories can generally be divided into three types: teleological‚ deontological‚ and virtue ethics. The first two types are considered as action-based theories because they focus entirely upon the actions which a person performs. The last one focuses on training decision maker’s character. Teleological theories are characterized focus primarily on the consequences. In order to make the correct ethical decisions‚ decision-maker has to evaluate
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prospects of employability. Educational institutions play a significant role and are the perennial source of knowledge and quality education. Having said that‚ it is also to be noted that maintaining the standard of these institutions is of paramount importance which lay a platform for a good institution. The corner stone of this essay is to determine the role of capacity planning in educational institutions which forms a very important part of strategic plan. Capacity planning is the known as the process
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NORMATIVE ETHICAL THEORIES Objective • Discuss the normative ethical theories L2: Normative Ethical Theories Beliefs about how people should behave can be classified into at least 2 major categories: Teleological theories (Consequentialism) Right actions are those that produce the most or optimize the consequences of one’s choices. Behaviour is ‘ethical’ if it results in desirable behaviour 1. 2. 3. 4. Ethical egoism Ethical elitism Ethical parochialism Ethical universalism Deontological theories
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