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ERIC Number: EJ311602
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1985
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Why Some Topics Are Controversial.
Kupperman, Joel J.
Educational Leadership, v42 n4 p73-76 Dec-Jan 1984-85
This article offers guidelines drawn from the last 200 years of ethical theory to aid educators in discerning between "uncontroversial" questions to which they can assume the correct answer is known and legitimately "controversial" questions requiring great care to be fair to the various points of view. (Author/DCS)
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Elementary Secondary Education, Ethical Instruction, Ethics, Intellectual Freedom, Moral Development, Moral Issues, Moral Values, Philosophy, Values Education
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Non-Classroom
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Audience: Administrators; Practitioners
Language: English
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