Ethics used as a ”Battleground” in Swedish Teacher Training Courses

Postmodernism in the Humanities

Postmodernism’s ”broad understanding of society” under attack
Axess: Education magazine – Nov 2012 http://www.axess.se/magasin/default.aspx?article=1510

Postmodern Sociology & Politics in
University Teacher Training Courses http://www.axess.se/magasin/default.aspx?article=44 http://www.axess.se/magasin/default.aspx?article=1512

http://www.academia.edu/240400/The_meaning_of_social_climate_of_learning_environments_Some_reasons_why_we_do_not_care_enough_about_it
Allodi (2010) strikes a blow for reason and against Post-Modernism in
Swedish
Education 

Is Postmodernism today in touch with the real world?
(Have Postmodernists now really stopped saying: ”anything goes”?)
??? !
http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Science-wars--last-round--7043

Postmodernism’s Critics ? – Many ... outside the Humanities.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuKmMyhnG94

Human Flourishing vs Postmodernism
Human Well-Being vs Moral Relativism
Common absolute values vs ”No absolute values”
For the Enlightenment vs Against the Enlightenment
OR ...

Evidence of The Enlightenment
( The effects of science and reason)
The Flynn Effect: Rising IQ scores, 1947–2002
Source: Graph from Flynn, 2007, p. 8.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9404856/Is-the-female-of-the-species-really-more-intelligent-than-the-male.html
War & Violence Decreasing 
Caring & Intelligence Increasing 
Human Rights
Woman’s Rights
Minority Rights,
Children’s Rights
Gay Rights
Animal Rights http://stevenpinker.com/pages/frequently-asked-questions-about-better-angels-our-nature-why-violence-has-declined

New Technology solving Old Philosophical Problems ?
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/starsgalaxies/wmap_pol.html
http://ehl.web.rice.edu/Flammarion%20Link.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/04/sam-harris-how-science-ca_n_779020.html
http://www.rps.psu.edu/indepth/brainscans1.html

A growing scientific, objective, evidence-based view of Ethics and Morality http://www.amazon.com/Moral-
Landscape-Science-Determine-
Values/dp/143917122X
There are many peaks in the moral landscape, not just one. Morality is here like food. There is no one best food to eat, but there is still an objective difference between poison and tasty, nutritious cuisine. Similarly, there is no one best way to live; but there is an objective, specifiable difference between circumstances, actions and policies
“Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see that there is no such thing as Christian or Muslim morality.”
“If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and worse ways to secure it, then some cultures will tend to produce lives that are more worth living than others; some political persuasions will be more enlightened than others; and some world views will be mistaken in ways that cause needless human misery.”
See this video for a broader explanation of a science-based (not postmodernist) ethics  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj9oB4zpHww http://www.amazon.com/B raintrust-Neuroscience-
Tells-about-
Morality/dp/0691156344