PART 4: APPLYING MORAL DEVELOPMENT
In this part, we expose students to frameworks of moral thinking and ask them to apply these frameworks to their values and decision they've made in the face of ethical dilemmas. This theory application was the second part of the values dilemma assignment and to be done after the initial part was finished and returned. The idea was for students to perform the first part of the exercise without theory, obtain feedback that. They did it correctly, and then apply the theory. Applying theory to academic exercises is hardly unusual. Perhaps the most obvious example of an academic discipline that requires student to perform practical exercises representing theory is Chemistry. While many ethical scholars, including Matherne et.al(2006) and Taft and White (2007) advocate combining theory and values articulation, we are not aware of anything in the literature indicating a graded assignment for students to apply theory to ethical dilemmas they ‘ve experienced.