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PRACTICAL AND SIMPLE ETHICAL SKILLS FOR EVERDAY LIVING IN A
MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY.

We can appreciate diversity in cultures, in dress, in food, in religious ceremonies, in dance, in art
etc., but if we are to live in harmony together, we need to have commonly accepted standards of
right and wrong.
Ordinary people all over the world face much the same problems of living together in communities,
dealing with each other in business and in social activities, and in bringing up children in an
increasingly complex world.
For over thirty years any attempt to indroduce a consistent form of “Values education” into our
state schools has foundered on the questions, “Whose values? What values?”. The method of
ethical reasoning offered here depends on basic ethical principles with which to examine all
values. It aims to raise the level of ethical reasoning from “What’s in it for me?” to “How will my
actions affect other people and the environment?”.

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A Simple, Consistent and Practical formula for ethical reasoning and making ethical decisions - within the requirements of the 2007 N.Z. Curriculum.

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A selection of teaching resources designed for teachers and parents.