Friday 12 November 2010

Henry et al - 1992 - eva project at uclan looking at institutional ethics and values audit

These are abridged notes from trowler 2010 p8-10

Attempting to do a psycho-metric, management consultant style audit for specific applied purposes. [personal reflection; my study has the applied approach, but with my job it is in escapable.]

It's designed to map individual' personalities, abilities and potential. [this seems unfairly damming of trowler and needs further investigations]

eva is a multi method approach, which is looking at the whole institution. As trowler says this is missing the point of loosing the local dimension and demonstrates the asumptions made about culture.

Eva looks as a very few aspects of ethics and values, these include trust, collaboration, information flow, power and professional respect. [trust should be review in this study] trowler argues that other aspects such as curriculur content could reveal much about values of individuals and institution. [taking a theme such as this a looking at all the different approaches, descriptions and values associated with it could reveal many dimensions]

distinct boundaries are very difficult to maintain between broad concepts such as ethics and values, they stray into other areas. This in natural and somewhat predicted by the background of the author. The author must be explicit when discussing them.

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