REGR 6125/8125 MORAL EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT On-Line Prof. Harold (Bud) Horell Fordham University Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education Summer 2016 Office: Keating Hall 303J Email: horell@fordham.edu Office phone: (718) 817-4815 Course Description: The course focuses on enabling religious educators and pastoral ministers to develop their ability for ethical analysis. It provides a framework for understanding morality and moral development, including how our understandings of the human person and community and attitude towards the natural environment shape our moral outlook. The course also explores a few of the central moral issues of our day. Emphasis is placed on enabling religious educators and pastoral ministers to make moral formation an integral dimension of education in Christian faith, and providing a foundational understanding of morality and ethics for social ministry. Learning Outcomes Demonstrate a knowledge of core theories, approaches, and other domain knowledge within the academic field of religious education pertaining to moral education and development Demonstrate an ability to relate effectively to their own ministerial and life contexts the core theories, approaches, and other domain knowledge within the academic field of religious education pertaining to moral education and development Demonstrate the relationship between Christian faith traditions and one's practice of spiritual development Demonstrate a knowledge and critical appropriation of Jesuit and Catholic theological traditions Course Resources: Required texts: Gula, Richard M. Just Ministry: Professional Ethics for Pastoral Ministers. New York: Paulist Press, 2010. (ISBN: 9780809146314) Jung, L. Shannon. Food for Life: The Spirituality and Ethics of Eating. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2004. (ISBN: 0800636422) Keenan, James. Moral Wisdom. 2 nd ed. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2010. (ISBNs: 1442202971 and 9781442202979) Noddings, Nel. Educating Moral People. New York: Teachers College Press, 2002. (ISBN: 080774168X) 1
Other articles and book chapters will be made available on the course Blackboard site. The experience and insight of the teacher The experience and insight of the students * Writing Resources: The Chicago Manual of Style: The Essential Guide for Writers, Editors, and Publishers, 15 th edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Turabian, Kate L. A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Sixth edition. Revised by John Grossman and Alice Bennett. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Strunk, William, Jr. and E.B. White. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition. New York: Longman, 2000. Groome, Thomas H. Language for a Catholic Church: A Program of Study, Rev. and expanded ed. Kansas City, MO: Sheed and Ward, 1995. Curriculum MODULE ONE: The Moral Sense and Moral Development (1 week) Horell, Moral Catechesis The Anglican-Roman Catholic Theological Consultation in the USA, Ecclesiology and Moral Discernment, April 22, 2014 (selection) MODULE TWO: Moral Awareness (1 week) Horell, On Learning to See the World Religiously Jung, Food for Life, chapter 1 Keenan, Moral Wisdom, chapter 1 MODULE THREE: Moral Reflection (1 week) Stivers, Robert L. Rigor and Responsibility. In Robert L. Stivers, Christine E. Gudorf, Alice Frazer Evens and Robert Evens. Christian Ethics: A Case Method Approach. Second Edition. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1994: 15-18. Horell, Liberating Moral Reflection Jung, Food for Life, chapter 2-3 MODULE FOUR: Moral Commitment and Sustaining Moral Action (1 week) 2
Conscience, Moral Decision Making and Commitment Sustaining and Revising Moral Commitments Colby, Anne and William Damon, The Development of Extraordinary Moral Commitment. In Melanie Killen and Daniel Hart, eds. Morality in Everyday Life: Developmental Perspectives. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995: 342-370. Keenan, Chapter 2. Jung, Chapters 4-6. O Connell, Timothy. Conscience, in Principles for a Catholic Morality. Minneapolis: Seabury Press, 1976, 1978: 83-97. MODULE FIVE: Foundational Moral Concerns (1 week) The Personal and Communal Dimensions of Morality Sin and Suffering Scripture and Moral Insight Groome, Thomas H. A Good People: God s Own Image and Likeness, and A Community for Life: Made for Each Other, in Educating for Life. Allen, TX: Thomas Moore, 1998: 67-115 and 171-214. Keenan, Chapters 3-6. Gula, Richard. A Sense of Sin and Kinds of Sin, in Reason Informed by Faith: Foundations of Catholic Morality. New York: Paulist Press, 1989: 89-122. Moran, Gabriel. Self-Dividedness and Responsibility, and Corporately Responsible, in A Grammar of Responsibility. New York: Crossroads, 1996. Spohn, William C. What Are They Saying About Scripture and Ethics? (Fully Revised and Expanded Edition), New York: Paulist Press, 1995: 94-127. MODULE SIX: Moral Growth and Development (2 weeks) 3
Part 1: Part 2: o An Overview of the Three Primary Approaches to Moral Education o The Development of Socio-Moral Reasoning Required Reading for Week Eleven: Kohlberg, Lawrence. The Cognitive-Developmental Approach to Moral Education. In David Purpel and Kevin Ryan, eds. Moral Education It Comes with the Territory. Berkeley, CA: McCutchan, 1976: 176-195. Moore, Mary Elizabeth. Questioning Assumptions: God, Goodness, and Human Nature. In Donald M. Joy, ed., Moral Development Foundations: Judeo- Christian Alternatives to Piaget/Kohlberg, Nashville: Abingdon, 1983. o Virtue Ethics and Character Education o Care and Moral Education Noddings, Educating Moral People, Chapters 2-8 MODULE SEVEN: Selected Contemporary Moral Issues (1 week) The Continuing Crisis in the Roman Catholic Church Morality and the Natural Environment: The Global Context of Fundamental Morality Professional Ministerial Ethics Rossetti, Stephen. A Tragic Grace: The Catholic Church and Child Sexual Abuse. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1996: ix-23 (Forward and Chapter 1). Keeler, William (Cardinal). Commitment to Action: Rebuilding Trust, Origins 32:18 (October 10, 2002): 306-308. Benedict XVI. To the Catholics of Ireland. Topsell, Kieran. Australian bishop testifies on Prevalence of Child Sex Abuse in the Church, National Catholic Reporter, September 10, 2015. 4
Franklin, Kristine L. What Do We Tell the Children? A Catechetical Moment. In Paul Thigpen., ed. Shaken by Scandals: Catholics Speak Out About Priests Sexual Abuse. Ann Arbor, MI: Servant Publications, 2002: 123-129. The Economist (editorial). The Catholic Church in America: Earthly Concerns. August 18, 2012. Grazer, Walter E. Environmental Justice: A Catholic Voice. America (January 19-26, 2004). Benedict XVI, Charity in Truth, Chapter 4 Outline Francis, Laudato Si (selection) Gula, Just Ministry, chapters 1-4 & pp. 240-250. Lawler, Philip F. Priestly Misconduct, Episcopal Neglect: An Overview of the Scandals. In Paul Thigpen., ed. Shaken by Scandals: Catholics Speak Out About Priests Sexual Abuse. Ann Arbor, MI: Servant Publications, 2002: 21-30. (e-reserve and module materials) Lakeland, Paul, Understanding the Crisis in the Church, In Jean M. Bartunek, Mary Ann Hinsdale, and James F. Keenan, eds. Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context. Lanham, MD: Sheed & Ward, Rowman & Littlefied, 2006: 3-15. John Jay College Research Team. Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in the United States 1950-2010. Feuerberd, Joe. 85% of Diocese Report Embezzlements, National Catholic Reporter, December 21, 2006. Bane, Mary Jo Exit, Voice and Loyalty in the Church, America 186:19 (June 3-10, 2002): 12-14. Jamie L. Manson. Lives of Quiet and Not-So-Quiet Desperation. National Catholic Reporter, June 4, 2009. United States Catholic Conference of Bishops, Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People. United States Catholic Conference of Bishops. Renewing the Earth. Washington, D.C.: U.S.C.C., 1992. National Conference of Catholic Bishops/ United States Catholic Conference of Bishops, Global Climate Change. Washington, D.C.: U.S.C.C., 2001. John Paul II, Peace with God the Creator, Peace with all Creation, 1 January 1990. Bartholomew, Encyclical of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew for the Day fo the Protection of the Natural Environment, September 1, 2006. (module materials) 5