PrimaryEthics

Jane's workplace values chime well with volunteering as an ethics teacher - and the skills she learns feed back into her work role. Win-win. primaryethics.com.au/janehunter-val… #volunteering @Volunteers_NSW @ethics_centre

Did you catch the #ethics lesson about empathy on Insight? And our curriculum writer Kelby Mason was in the audience discussion. Luckily there's SBS on demand to view it again - the ethics class comes in at 43.53 minutes sbs.com.au/ondemand/watch… @ethics_centre

Sorry about the typo - it's the Kinghorn Award.

Swee Goh, winner of our inaugural Kinghown Award for ethics volunteers, has now distributed her prize money to 2 different schools, including one badly affected by floods. Here's a Q+A with Swee. primaryethics.com.au/swee-goh-winne… @ethics_centre #Mullumbimby

Swee Goh, winner of our inaugural Kinghorn Award for ethics volunteers, has now distributed her prize money to 2 different schools, including one badly affected by floods. Here's a Q+A with Swee. primaryethics.com.au/swee-goh-winne…… @ethics_centre #Mullumbimby

‘I’m a primary ethics teacher. Here are the 5 biggest things it teaches kids.’ By Emily McGrorey, one of our volunteer ethics teachers in Newcastle. primaryethics.com.au/ethics-teacher… #ethicseducation @ethics_centre

Reading through the ethics discussion rules reminded our volunteer Shane Arthurson of his visit to Parliamentary question time last year - and not in a good way. He writes about what he saw on our blog: primaryethics.com.au/do-better-for-… @ethics_centre #questiontime #AustralianParliament

We're also looking forward to running ethics programs in an expanding number of high schools this year! primaryethics.com.au/about-ethics-c…

Amusingly unreal - Bump TV does an ethics lesson: primaryethics.com.au/bump/ @niltiac #Australiantv

“We encourage students to put themselves in somebody else’s shoes – why that’s fair and why something else is not fair.” How ethics classes can help children - and later adults - make good choices. smh.com.au/lifestyle/life… @JennaPrice #DominicPerrottet @smh

@niltiac By the way, hope you are recovering well!

@niltiac Thanks for pointing that out Caitlin @niltiac, it is indeed an inaccurate depiction of ethics teachers and lessons. More from us later.

ICYMI: Our after school ethics club in an inner-city high school, run by trained volunteer @KevinFarmer - smh.com.au/national/nsw/t…

@JaneCaro @secularschools @DenyseWhelan1 @1952Relle @AustralianStory NSW law now provides for Ethics education as an option in the same timeslot as scripture. Thousands of trained volunteers deliver an approved philosophical ethics curriculum in hundreds of public schools every week. We commence our 13th year this month!

@secularschools @DenyseWhelan1 @1952Relle @AustralianStory The churches were wise to that a century ago. It is built into the Act that no other education can be offered at the same time as scripture.

‘Promote Christian beliefs without fear or favour’ Sure, as long as you do it on your own dime, not the taxpayers, many of whom are the very same people you actively discriminate against. @AustralianStory

@amorphic @LynAldenContact Thanks James. Think/reason/discuss is the basis of our curriculum and a good basis for all public discourse too.

@LynAldenContact thankyou for this insightful thread. This is one of the reasons so many of us volunteer to teach @EthicsEducation to primary school kids here in Australia. Critical thinking, collaborative enquiry and the ability to listen to other points of view have never been more important.

As establishment political leaders around the world increasingly sound like highly-polish robots, they'll be rightfully perceived as less genuine among the public, thus fueling further populism.

Mother-daughter ethics teaching duo primaryethics.com.au/2022/09/23/mot… #ethicseducation @theleadernews

A fascinating edition of 'Conversations' on the ABC: Simon Longstaff, Primary Ethics Board member, talking to Richard Fidler - Simon believes ethics is the path to a more connected and humane future. #ethics abc.net.au/radio/programs…

This happens in an ethics class: primaryethics.com.au/about-ethics-c…

Alexa Stuart, 18, has gone back to her primary school as a volunteer ethics teacher, as she loved ethics so much herself. Skip to 2:50 for the delightful interview: abc.net.au/radio/programs… @ABCEducationAU @ABCaustralia #ethicseducation

The lasting power of ethics lessons! We now have a number of former students who have returned to volunteer as ethics teachers - including 18 year old Alexa in her own Newcastle primary school.