Ethics And Education Question Paper
Ethics And Education
Course:Master Of Education
Institution: Kenyatta University question papers
Exam Year:2008
KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2007/2008
INSTITUTIONAL BASED PROGRAMME
EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF EDUCATION
F/M/404: ETHICS AND EDUCATION
DATE: Thursday 28th August, 2008 TIME: 9.00 a.m. – 12.00 noon
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INSTRUCTIONS
Answer any three questions.
1. “The deterioration of morality witnessed in Kenyan schools recently is a
reflection of the absence of values in the Kenyan educational system”
a) To what degree do you agree with this statement?
b) What, in your opinion, should be the remedy?
2. “Quality Education is the formation of the whole person”.
What are the dimensions of “the whole person”?
3. (a) What is morality?
(b) What is the relationship between morality and virtue?
4. Describe the teaching of moral values in traditional African educational
system, and highlight its strengths and weaknesses. (Pick your own community
as model).
5. a) What do you understand by “Formal Principle of Morality”?
b) Using this ‘Formal Principle of Morality’, make a critique of both
relativism and ethical egoism.
6. Compare the Aristotelian virtue ethics with traditional ethical pedagogy using the
proverb system.
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