1. A Critical Approach to an Ethics and Diversity Class
Ashleigh Woods
University of Alabama
Spring 2014
Comprehensive Exam

2. Executive Summary
Aims
Methods
Content

3. Lack of Ethical Education
Statement of Problem
Lack of Ethical Education
Nursing Shortage
Nursing Burnout
Moral distress

4. Lack of Diversity Education
Statement of Problem
Lack of Diversity Education
Rising Diverse Nursing Student Population
Perpetuation of Social Injustice

5. Statement of Problem
Student’s Unpreparedness to Handle Ethical and Diverse Situations

6. Literature Review Ethics Education Cultural Diversity Education
Relationship between Ethics and Diversity

7. Orienting Conceptual Framework
Defining Critical pedagogy
Application of critical pedagogy

8. Justification for the Curricula Content Instructional Practices
Ethics
Diversity

9. Justification for the Curricula Content Instructional Practices
Methods
Readings and PowerPoint Presentations
Debate
Ethical Decision-Making Models
Case Studies
Service-learning
Reflective Journaling

10. Benefits of Using Technology in Education
For Students
For teachers

11. Conclusion Paulo Freire
“Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.”
Paulo Freire