Chapter 8: Learning to Teach Ethics from the Heart: A Journey of Discovery from the Inside Out

This chapter explores teaching and learning approaches that enable both faculty and students to speak from the heart and better connect as co-learners in a process for building more ethical leaders and managers. In particular, we introduce our experiences with wisdom circles involving faculty in our field. We then explore several related forms of dialogic engagement and reflective practices that share many similar learning assumptions as wisdom circles and that can help participants find their authentic voice as a basis for developing moral courage and imagination. We believe that these emerging forms of dialogic engagement will have increasing application for faculty development and as a teaching/learning approach for business ethics and related courses in business schools.