IS SEE (SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL & ETHICAL) LEARNING APPROACH IN BUSINESS STUDIES, AN OXYMORON?

As a community of machine-age ‘robots’, we are shaken out of our mechanical slumber, time and again by the
real global Climate Disasters, fuelled by the ‘systemic Moral Crisis’ of the modern human society. More
worrisome is the fact that political leaders, religious heads, business owners, teachers and parents are all busy
treating the ‘symptoms’, while the underlying ‘lack of basic human values and resultant ethical radars - which
are conspicuous by their absence’, are consistently being overlooked. At this pace and in the given direction we
can only expect to walk exponentially in to our uncomfortable graves, nailing ourselves inside permanently with
our ‘epicurean arrogance & myopia’.
While political leaders, decision-makers in businesses and even the religious heads are products of the society
and its prevalent ethical fabric, parents and teachers need to take almost all of the blame for this moral failure.
This paper explores how a certain subject like Business Studies can be taught in a manner that each economic
decision first runs through its social, ecological and ethical implications.