Navigating the Moral Maze: A Teaching Guide to the Problems of Life, Death, Freedom and Justice

Navigating the Moral Maze is a teaching resource to help students understand and critically engage with the most pressing issues in the world today. From the ruin of Gaza to the climate emergency, from the repeal of Roe v Wade to rising inequality, young people are growing up in a world beset with moral concerns and predicaments. With this book teachers can equip students with the critical skills and conceptual clarity needed to navigate through these issues and reach a clear and articulate understanding of their own views.

Each chapter features numerous lesson ideas with activities, texts and thought experiments that help refine and enrich students' thoughts on the topics while promoting discussion and reflection. Topics covered include:

• Reproduction


• Euthanasia


• Poverty


• Environment


• Borders


• War

Applicable to Religious Studies, Philosophy and Ethics, and touching on topics relevant to PSHE, History and Geography, this will be a valuable resource for secondary teachers wanting to enhance their students' critical writing and thinking skills.

?In this clear and lively guide David Birch equips both teachers and pupils with the tools needed to tackle some of our most urgent moral problems. The well-chosen questions and activities will stimulate discussion, reflection and genuine understanding ? Socrates would approve!'

Angie Hobbs, Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy, University of Sheffield

?Imaginatively presented and well-written, David Birch?s latest book gives teachers and their pupils useful tools and activities on profoundly challenging topics. I highly recommend this teaching guide as an instrument for helping young people develop their thinking on the issues that affect us all.?

Emma Swinn MBE, Co-director of the UK?s National Charity for Philosophical Enquiry

?Navigating the Moral Maze contains a multitude of engaging questions, extracts and scenarios that can get even the most disengaged class going. It offers teachers numerous scaffolding tools and activities that they can lift straight off the page to help their pupils think more clearly about the trickiest topics.?

Philip Gaydon, Head of Character Education, St Paul?s School