Ethics: Our responsibility to our
profession, our students, & families
June 27, 2014
Dr. Barbara Allison CFCS, Associate Professor
Texas Tech University
Dr. Jody Roubanis CFCS, 2012-2013 AAFCS Ethics Committee Chair
Point Loma University
Objectives
Relate ethic of the profession to the newly revised AAFCS Code of
Ethics, and recall importance of all ethical practice to sustainable
professional practice.
Explain the four premises in the Ethical Perspectives for FCS
Professional Model: ethic of justice, ethic of care, ethic of justice, and
ethic of the profession.
Formulate morally defensible decisions to perennial community
issues, reflecting on own preferred decision-making patterns as they
relate to the ethical perspective model.
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Ethical Perspectives for FCS
Professionals
Roubanis, J. L., Garner, S. G., & Purcell, R. S. (2006) An ethical perspectives model for FCS.
Journal of Family & Consumer Sciences, 98(4), 30-31.
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Multiple Ethical Perspectives
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Ethic of Care
Ethic of Justice
Ethic of Critique
Ethic of the Profession
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• Responsibility to others
• Families as ecosystems
Theorists: Gilligan, Noddings, Held
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www.twentyfirstcenturyart.com
Ethic of Care
Ethic of Justice
• Laws
• Rules
• Principles
www.slideshare.net
Theorists: Aristotle, Kant, Kohlberg
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Ethic of Critique
Power, wealth
What are barriers to fairness?
Theorists: Hunt, Richards, Freire
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en.wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
www.ilsussidiario.net
Ethic of the Profession
AAFCS American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences
http://www.aafcs.org/about/ethics.html
NAEYC National Association for the Education of Young Children
http://departments.weber.edu/chfam/2610/code.pdf
Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics (formerly ADA)
http://www.ada.org/prof/prac/law/code/index.asp
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Case Study: Activity
Ethical Perspectives for FCS Professionals
Ethic of Critique
Ethic of Care
Individual
Ethic of Justice
Family
Community
Ethic of Profession
•Roubanis, J. L., Garner, S. G., & Purcell, R. S. (2006) An ethical perspectives model for FCS.
•Journal of Family & Consumer Sciences, 98(4), 30-31.
Case Study: Activity
Ethical Perspectives for FCS Professionals
Ethic of Critique
Ethic of Care
Individual
Ethic of Justice
Family
Community
Ethic of Profession
Roubanis, J. L., Garner, S. G., & Purcell, R. S. (2006) An ethical perspectives model for FCS.
Journal of Family & Consumer Sciences, 98(4), 30-31.
Case Study
AAFCS 105th ANNUAL CONFERENCE & EXPO
Family & Consumer Sciences: Global Gateway to Healthy & Sustainable Families