Deliberative Ethics Pedagogy for Educating Across the Lifespan
Civic Learning Symposium at Ball State University (with Emily Knuth)
Muncie, IN, September 28, 2024
This talk focuses on teaching ethics as a practice of shared deliberation, not debate. We use the Ethics Bowl format as a concrete model: students collaborate across disagreement, ask better questions, and build arguments in public, with norms that protect agency and take pluralism seriously. From there, We situate the Prindle Institute’s work across K–5, high school, college, and adult programs, and show how the same pedagogical core scales across contexts, including digital case libraries and public-facing resources.
