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The Conscience of the Campus Case Studies in Moral Reasoning Among Today's College Students
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Joseph Dillon Davey, Linda DuBois Davey
Book Code: C7208
ISBN: 0-275-97208-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97208-0
160 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 4/30/2001
List Price: $106.95 (UK Sterling Price: £59.95)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Paperback Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • For those for whom the polemics ring true, this work may deserve a welcomed place on their bookshelf. From everyone else, it provides a framework for exploring and introducing moral reasoning in the classroom.
    —The Journal of Academic Librarianship     Jan-Mar 2002
  • Conscience of the Campus succeeds admirably in thoroughly and concisely laying out a host of moral-legal issues that we on college campuses should discuss with our students....very useful.
    —AAHE Bulletin     December 2001
  • ...likely to generate serious discussion in almost any academic discipline....a helpful tool toward addressing one of the pressing concerns of academic life--the conscience of the campus community.
    —Journal of College Student Development     January/February 2002
Description: The conscience of today's college students is guided by the personal moral values that underlie its concept of justice. College professors frequently avoid discussions of moral values, fearful of either the deconstructionist's criticism or the alleged "wall of separation" between church and state. Regardless of their reasons, they tend to argue that today's students have no interest in discussing abstract concepts of morality. The Daveys argue that given the right case studies of moral dilemmas, today's college students will enthusiastically share and discuss their own moral values, learn to critically examine pressing social issues, and grow to new levels of understanding. More than two dozen scenarios involving moral questions concerning race, poverty, crime, drugs, sex, religion, educational funding, and constitutional rights are presented. These issues are faced by a generation raised during the "information revolution." College students live in a world of such rapid change that nothing is certain about their future. It may well be that there has never been a time when college students were more eager to discuss fundamental questions about right and wrong, to examine their own moral values. This timely work is of value in any course touching upon moral values, including courses in sociology, education, political science and law, child development, criminal justice, and philosophy.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction--The Moral Reasoning of College Student When Asked: "What is Justice?"
  • An Introduction to Law
  • Law as a Guide to Justice
  • The Logic of the Law
  • Change in the Law
  • The Constitution
  • The Bill of Rights
  • Social Justice and the Law
  • Crime
  • Poverty
  • Race
  • Drugs
  • Epilogue--Has Moral Reasoning of College Students Changed?
LC Card Number: 00-064954
LCC Class: LA229
Dewey Class: 378
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