Margaret Rhodes

Ph.D., Philosophy, Brandeis University

Associate Professor, Applied Ethics and Feminist Thought

Office: W-3-154-18

Phone number: 617-287-7357

margaret.rhodes@umb.edu

 

Margaret Rhodes is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the College of Public and Community Service, University of Massachusetts/Boston , where she teaches undergraduate courses on ethics, critical thinking and justice and also teaches the graduate course on human service ethics. She also teaches occasionally as an adjunct in the PhD. Program at Simmons School of Social Work. She has written a book on ethics, entitled Ethical Dilemmas in Social Work Practice, published by Family Service America, as well as several papers exploring aspects of ethics in human services. She has served on the Massachusetts NASW Ethics Commission, including its hotline, and served on the Donaldson Adoption Institute's Ethics Advisory Committee, which developed information papers on adoption and the new reproductive technologies.

Publications:

Ethical Dilemmas in Social Work Practice, Boston : Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986, Families International, 1990.

Guest Editor, Special Issue on Ethics, Families in Society, (May-June, 98)

 

"Constructionism and Ethics: what makes a better story?" with Ruth Dean, Families in Society, May-June, 1998.

Evaluates the following competencies:

•  Member of the Experiential Learning Team

•  Understanding Arguments

•  Making Arguments

•  Value Conflicts

•  Debating Policy Issues

•  Action Learning

•  Critical Readings

•  Critical Analysis

•  Public Advocacy