Abstract

The phrase “teaching global media ethics” may be conventionally interpreted in at least three ways: teaching courses and subjects which pertain to international media ethics, teaching media ethics courses worldwide, and the combination of numbers 1 and 2 above, –the teaching of international media ethics throughout the world. Although this chapter will allude to all three meanings, the emphasis herein is upon how media ethics is taught globally rather than how the subject, global media ethics, may be taught. After a brief survey of the highlights of early attempts at teaching media ethics domestically and internationally, this chapter introduces the most comprehensive and global initiative to date, –one which seeks to introduce ethics pedagogy to all continents and at all levels –including primary, secondary, and higher education. Known as the E4J Initiative, which is sponsored by the UNODC branch of the United Nations, the project has gathered ethics experts from over thirty countries since 2016 to develop a curriculum in many branches of ethics which may be implemented and customized worldwide. This chapter concludes that the E4J ethics project is a quantum step forward in the development of global ethics pedagogy, including media ethics. The chapter provides sample teaching tools and modules from the pedagogy as well as a rationale for its implementation.