NOTES ON MORAL EDUCATION

Authors

  • Howard B. Radest University of South Carolina-Beaufort

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/eph.v15i1.9

Keywords:

humanism, ethics, moral education

Abstract

An earlier version of this essay was presented at the Annual Retreat (February 2005) of the Ethics Committee of the South Carolina Medical Association. The subject was moral education in medical schools. A brief selection, “Creating An Effective Pedagogy for Moral Education” was published in the Journal of the S.C. Medical Association. The present paper examines the state of 'moral education' in contemporary education and other public institutions.

Author Biography

  • Howard B. Radest, University of South Carolina-Beaufort

    Howard B. Radest, Ph.D., is adjunct professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina-Beaufort. He is chair of Hilton Head Hospital’s Biomedical Ethics Committee, a consulting member of the SC Medical Association Ethics Committee, and consultant to the Center for Preparedness, School of Public Health, USC. He is dean emeritus of the Humanist Institute, a member of the National Council of Ethical Culture Leaders, and a member of the Highlands Institute for American Religious and Philosophic Thought. From 1979-1991 he served as director (headmaster) of the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York City. He was professor of philosophy and director of the School of American Studies at Ramapo College in New Jersey (1970-1979), executive director of the American Ethical Union (1963-1969), and leader of the Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County, New Jersey (1956-1963). He was the founder and first chair (1983-1991) of the University Seminar on Moral Education at Columbia University and is a member of the Board of the North American Committee for Humanism (NACH). He served from 1978-1988 as co-chair of the International Humanist and Ethical Union and is on the editorial boards of the Humanist and Religious Humanism. In addition to numerous articles, his books are Toward Common Ground (Ungar, 1968), a history of the Ethical Culture Movement in the United States, Can We Teach Ethics? (Praeger, 1989), The Devil and Secular Humanism (Praeger, 1990), Community Service, Encounter With Strangers (Praeger, 1993), Humanism With A Human Face (Praeger, 1996), Felix Adler: An Ethical Culture, (Peter Lang Publishers, 1998), From Clinic To Classroom--Medical Ethics and Moral Education, (Praeger, 2000), and Biomedical Ethics, (Prometheus, 2006). He is currently preparing Ethics and Public Health in a Time of Terrorism. He is listed in Who's Who and Who's Who in Education.

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2013-10-09

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Vol. 15 (2007)

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Radest, H. B. (2013). NOTES ON MORAL EDUCATION. Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism, 15(1), 9-34. https://doi.org/10.1558/eph.v15i1.9