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21 - On Ethical Pedagogies

from Part III - Media and Modes of Ethical Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2023

By
James D. Faubion
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James Laidlaw
James Laidlaw
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University of Cambridge
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Summary

In the empirical exploration of ethical pedagogies, a quartet of themes are salient. The classic theme of and debate over the relative weighting of nature over nurture is inescapable. A second concerns the extent to which any given repertoire of norms, values, exemplars, and ideals are written in sociocultural stone versus the extent to which they are malleable, fluid, of unstable valence, and liable to elimination or supplementation. A third concerns the degree to which the techniques of the ethical pedagogue are informal or formal. A fourth concerns the place that ethical students occupy within the dynamics of incorporation and objectification. Neglect any of these themes and infelicities can result. Among them, the crucial role that childhood socialization plays in ethical formation might not receive the acknowledgement it is due. The distinction between ethics and ethos might suffer conflation. Worst of all, the anthropologist of ethics might run the risk of slipping into methodological or – even worse – ontological individualism. Proper attention to ethical pedagogies can ameliorate such infelicities. It can also facilitate recognizing that pedagogies, at whatever stage in the life course, are foundational to ethical formation, deformation, and reformation.

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ethical masterethics versus ethosexemplarsfreedomindividualismmethodpedagogyrestricted capacitiessocializationsubjectivation
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The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Ethics , pp. 536 - 558
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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