Ethical CoPs

A CoP in academia towards ethics teaching
This paper talks about many CoPs for students, in academia, academic institutions and the global academic community. If ethics, caring, responsibility is embedded in these CoPs and academic administration pays heed to the informal CoPs, we will tend towards ethical behaviour and teaching ethical behaviour. We will treat others with ethical behaviour if they are part of our community, thus communities are basic to the construction of ethics. This social aspect of ethics, implies feminist principles of ethics, in particular quoting Noddings .

Steps to build an ethical community(Cooper)
1 focus on interdependent areas of lives
2 make ethical deliberation central to or conversation
3 public officials must rethink their roles
4 public officials need to create arenas for conversation
5 all parties need to understand the the road is fraught with dangers and embrace them
6 long term engagement is essential
7 reinvent social science
may I add
8 responsibility towards the ecology of community
9 sustainability
10 the environment is an important member of our communities
11 care factor


References
Cooper, T. (1997). Building an Ethical Community: Queensland University of Technology.
available USQ library

Noddings, N. (1984). Caring. A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Educaton. London, USA: University of California Press. Available USQ library- when I return it lol.

Weathersby, R., & White, J. (2004). Ethics and Community in Management Education [Electronic Version]. Academic Exchange Quarterly 8(1) Retrieved 18/12/2007 from http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/5jun2616w4.htm.