Real World Ethics: Frameworks for Educators and Human Science Professionals

One of the Absolute Best Ethics Books of all Time: A Must Read! This is the best ethics book I've read regarding the complexity of ethical decision- making and strategies to teach applied ethics. It helps students understand the reasoning that motivates their ethical decision-making improving their chances of making sound ethical decisions they can live with and that may prevent them from getting sued! Students now more then ever are interested in learning about ethics. My students routinely tell me the knowledge they gained reading this text and discussing it in class is the most useful knowledge they gained in college. They are also proud of this achievement and cite it as a highlight in their academic career. Nash knows college students well and it shows. He is beyond qualified to speak with authority about ethics as he does in this text. Nash has taught in the academy for over forty years, working with educators of all kinds, including student affairs professionals. In 2003, he was named an Official University Scholar in the Social Sciences and the Humanities at The University of Vermont, only the second faculty member in the history of the College of Education and Social Services to be so honored. He specializes in philosophy of education, ethics, higher education, and religion, spirituality, and education. He holds graduate degrees in English, Theology/Religious Studies, Applied Ethics and Liberal Studies, and Educational Philosophy. He holds faculty appointments in teacher education, higher education administration, and interdisciplinary studies in education. He administers the Interdisciplinary Master's Program, and he teaches ethics, religion, higher education, and philosophy of education courses, as well as scholarly personal narrative writing seminars, across four programs in the college, including the doctoral program in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies. He has supervised over 100 theses and dissertations. My perspective on this book is unique and important for anyone considering buying it. I used this text as a student and now as a professor. The best educational experience of my life was reading this book and studying ethics with the author when I was a doctoral student. Inspired by this, I became a professor of ethics myself and teach mainly from this text. At the end of this review, I include ideas for teaching from this text. Nash details what he calls: (a) First Moral Language- the language of background beliefs, (b) Second Moral Language -the language of Moral Character, (c) Third Moral Language the-language of moral principle. Nash provides a detailed case analysis to teach students how to use each language. Written for other scholars, the language in this book is philosophical. It takes time to absorb, but it is well worth it. This book is a great success with a long track record of proof. Check out these facts: *To date over fifty of Dr. Nash's former students are teaching Real World Ethics to graduat

I sympathize with punkgoth vixen. This is not a good book as a primary text for an ethics class. It is, however, an excellent book for those of us who teach ethics. I plan to use many ideas I got from the book in my classes.