Applying Ethical Theories

- What is Ethics in Education?

. realizing the power of our natural sense and how it influences our behaviour

* we build our ethical senses on our beliefs.

* ethics is measured on a case-by-case basis.

Schulte and Cochrane

- What is acting ethically?

. Acting according to well-justified ethical principles

- Develop a set of ethical principles for school counsellors to follow

- Improve reasoning counsellors use in solving ethical dilemmas (specific/difficult ethical problems)

- Kinds of ethical problems:

. Relevance - deciding how fundamental principles apply to the case & what specific principles to develop *

. Conflict - when our ethical principles apply to the case bu require differing courses of action