ABSTRACT An ethics curriculum is an integral part of most health profession courses. This thesis will explore using a qualitative approach to investigate the learning and application of professional ethical practice by Flinders University speech pathology students. This work will identify factors that may influence students’ readiness to learn about ethics. The knowledge, skills and attitudes that underpin professional ethical practice which speech pathology students were able to demonstrate at the conclusion of their entry level course will be illustrated. Also described will be the factors, identified by students and academics and field educators, which may influence student learning of this complex area of practice. To explore this topic, the results of “The Defining Issues Test” (Rest, 1979b) of moral judgement development, independent and scaffolded case studies, as well as group and individual interviews with students, and individual interviews with academic and field educators have been used. Results from this study suggest that a significant number of the undergraduate speech pathology students involved in this study found learning and applying ethical principles difficult, as their ability to reason morally remained conventional and rule bound. At the point of graduation, the students applied clinical and ethical reasoning skills, whilst emerging, were not yet well developed. The ability of students to demonstrate the integration of ethical theory and practice appeared limited. This lack of integration may be influenced by the fact that few field educators could report being exposed to formal ethical theories and ethical reasoning approaches during their own undergraduate education. Some of the more generic ethical practice skills reported by academics as being embedded throughout the speech pathology course, such as communication, team work and the seeking of professional support, were more clearly demonstrated by students. Results of this study suggest that exiting students and newly graduated speech pathologists require ongoing support in the area of professional ethical practice. More explicit embedding of the theoretical underpinnings of the ethics knowledge base throughout the curriculum may be required. To be able to support the integration of professional ethical practice in students and new graduates, speech pathologists currently practising in the field who did not receive formal ethics education during their own degree or since, may require ongoing professional development in the formal knowledge base pertaining to professional ethical practice.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T12:11:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 508833 bytes, checksum: a3f9292c3c70fd5676af2c29ad46ebe3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-12-02 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This study was to analyze the guiding utilitarian ethics, from his contributions regarding the applicability of its proposals in time. So we try to bring, from the search of the precursors of utilitarianism, how, when, and under what conditions is epochal discussions that have brought into question the possibility of consolidation and transformation of such a debate in moral theory. Thus we can see better the importance of utilitarian theory in our capitalist tradition, which underlies our relations in the world today. This importance of the utilitarian tradition in relation to moral philosophy, appears in the contemporary world, the figure of Peter Singer, who with his utilitarian approach replaces the debate about the so-called moral values, proposing to review the whole concept of ethics and agree to put our days as a condition essential to building a better world for future generations. We have analyzed the practical ethics of Peter Singer, from his own work, in order to work more closely your own text, since the very Singer argues that criticism to his propositions, in most cases occurs by a cursory reading of his work. Thus, we see more clearly the importance of analyzing the best philosophy of that author, as an opportunity unquestionable break old paradigms and move in-depth discussions and and at the same time, innovative, relevant and constructive views of the world more open and, therefore generating less pain and more happiness. / Este trabalho teve como fio condutor analisar a ética utilitarista, a partir de suas contribuições no tocante à aplicabilidade de suas propostas no tempo. Assim, procuramos trazer, a partir da busca dos precursores do utilitarismo, como, quando, e em que condições epocais se deram as discussões que trouxeram à baila a possibilidade da consolidação e transformação de tal debate em uma teoria da moral. Desta forma podemos vislumbrar melhor a importância da teoria utilitarista na nossa tradição capitalista, que fundamenta nossas relações no mundo até hoje. Dessa importância da tradição utilitarista com relação à filosofia moral, surge, na contemporaneidade, a figura de Peter Singer, que com sua postura utilitarista recoloca o debate acerca dos valores ditos morais, propondo revisar toda a concepção da ética posta e aceita até nossos dia como condição indispensável para a construção de um mundo melhor para as gerações futuras. Analisamos a ética prática de Peter Singer a partir de sua própria obra, com o objetivo de trabalhar mais minuciosamente seu próprio texto, posto que o próprio Singer argumenta que as críticas feitas às suas proposições, na maioria dos casos, se dá por uma leitura superficial de sua obra. Com isso, chegamos a ver, de forma mais clara, a importância de melhor analisarmos a filosofia do referido autor, como oportunidade inquestionável de quebrarmos velhos paradigmas e avançarmos em discussões profundas ee, ao mesmo tempo, inovadoras, pertinentes e construtivas de visões de mundo mais abertas e, por isso mesmo geradoras de menos dor e mais felicidade.

Doctor Legum - LLD / Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO), the act of sending legal work to an offshore destination or onshore to another location within the same country by a law firm or legal department to a legal outsourcing company, has steadily grown to become a billion dollar industry, transforming the legal landscape from the traditional law firm set up and firmly entrenching itself as a valued accessory to any law firm vying for success. The integration of the LPO business model arguably offers lower labour costs, 24-hour service delivery and direct access to a pool of professional lawyers specialising in a multitude of disciplines

The thesis deals with the reflection of human practice of the comunnity worker´s profession in socially excluded areas, which is represented by good practise and experience of community workers from two socially excluded areas, in a more profound philosophical ethical context. The human being the community worker is the most important factor in community work. Their inner maturity, cultivating inner qualities and entrenched values are besides the knowledge of community work methodology what community workers together identify as a necessary prerequisite for the success. The thesis is divided in three chapters all of which follow the line of setting a theoretical historically philosophical view in the particular practice of a community worker in a socially excluded area. In the first chapter there is an insight into the theory of virtue ethics from the ancient times to the present days, along with the virtue definition, the deconstruction of cardinal and theological virtues and it also discusses how we acquire virtues. The second chapter deals with value ethics. The author tries to answer a question what is the core of values, which one stands above all, what is the way to the meaning of values and, by extension, of a human - being, what is the value definition. It also reflects the values formed by social exclusion. In the third chapter the author tried to take a look into the ethical practice of the community worker in a socially excluded area especially by means of dilemma which was presented and analyzed there.

This study has two aims and addresses two areas of investigation. The first aim is to examine, in four novels and their textual worlds, what role is played by collective self-images and essentialist identities in maintaining power structures in regard to gender, class, norms for mental functions, and ethnicity. Whether, and if so, how, the novel’s deconstruction of language and images can function as resistance to hegemonic oppression? What does the encounter between the privileged collective and the marginalized look like in the novel, and what happens in this encounter? The project’s second aim is to probe what criticism of, and what strategies for resistance to, various power structures reading can provide. To what extent is it possible to speak of responsibility for, and in, the reading of fictional works? What role is played by the (un)expected and the conditionality in the poetical novel’s ethical demands on the reader? What might reading as an ethical practice mean and entail? The dual aim situates this dissertation in an interdisciplinary field between ethics, literary studies and aesthetics. In this study despair is the fundament on which the ethical reader stands to approach literature. Rather than discovering meanings, finding examples, or experiencing empathy, it is being engaged in the conditions determined by suffering and injustice that constitutes ethical reading. The novels Drömfakulteten (The Dream Faculty) by Sara Stridsberg, Hevonen häst (Hevonen Horse) by Annika Korpi, Montecore by Jonas Hassen Khemiri, and Personliga pronomen (Personal Pronouns) by Daniel Sjölin comprise the material for the study. They are analysed in terms of deconstructive hermeneutics. Theories brought to bear are primarily Gayatri Spivak’s post-colonial and Emmanuel Levinas’ phenomenological thinking about ethics, together with ideas from, among others, Derek Attridge, Judith Butler, and Sara Ahmed. The readings of the novels are done via four points of entry: identity, the body, the human, and the post-political, as part of the project’s work process, with each reading leading to new questions and critical interventions. The analysis points to a responsibility in relation to identity, a practice where oneself is shifted and transformed. This responsibility also encompasses accountability for the normative orders that need to be changed. Literary projects per se cannot achieve this, but they can be read as a stab at resistance, material for the reader to elaborate upon. This responsibility is an ethical practice that is not completed, that has uncertainty inscribed in its very essence, and that is reinvigorated with each new reading.