ABSTRACT
Moral development ‘refers to the growth of moral understanding in individuals. In this respect it concerns a person’s progressive ability to understand the difference between right and wrong, to care about the difference between them, and to act on the basis of this understanding’ (Parker, 1998, p. 267). Moral development is of particular relevance to the educational application being discussed in this chapter. Specifically, this educational application concerns an Ethics in Business course that focuses on fostering the moral development of learners. The entire course is based upon the premise that ethics education should be about each learner’s moral journey in life, and that each learner can have a more meaningful moral journey when it is informed by multiple perspectives that challenge each learner to grapple with moral issues through active engagement in dialogue with others. The focus of this chapter is on actively engaging learners in the exploration of ethical issues in businesses by reversing the traditional roles of teachers and students by having the students become ‘learning facilitators’ during the second of two phases of the course.
