PROFESSIONALISM AND ETHICS IN TEACHING ppt

[...]... to train and instruct, it is not to help and cure’.15 It is therefore important to bear in mind that any of these comparisons can be dangerously misleading, and that taking too seriously purported analogies between education and religious ministry, child-minding or salesmanship can have a distortive effect on our thinking about the distinctive character of teaching However, as we saw in our initial... rehearsal in quite this way Indeed, it is probably safe to say that imaginative teaching is something which is developed more than instructed and, to the extent that its development depends on qualities and resources already in embryo in the personality of the teacher, this accounts for the difficulty teacher trainers often have in assisting dull and lifeless individuals to be more expressive and imaginative... as in the case of vocational construals of education and teaching, rather different available conceptions of educational or teacher professionalism Having explored various possible comparisons of teaching with religious ministry, nursing and social work, it may be 14 EDUCATION, TEACHING AND PROFESSIONALISM helpful to examine different conceptions of educational professionalism, via comparisons of teaching. .. EDUCATION, TEACHING AND PROFESSIONALISM 2 1 TEACHING AND EDUCATION Fundamental assumptions and basic questions Any work on ethics and teaching written for a series on professional ethics would appear committed to certain key claims or assumptions Basically, these are: (i) that teaching is a professional activity; (ii) that any professional enterprise is deeply implicated in ethical concerns and considerations;... occupational status of teaching What, roughly, is teaching? At the most general level of logical grammar, it seems reasonable enough to regard teaching as a kind of activity in which human beings engage From this point of view, indeed, it is arguably important to distinguish both teaching and the larger project of education from various processes we merely undergo (such as socialisation and schooling); we are... debate and controversy about the point and purpose of education, and about what in the nature of human flourishing it should be concerned to promote For irrespective of any and all reasonable points of comparison between teaching and such other occupations as the priesthood, nursing, social work, plumbing, medicine and commerce, it should also be clear that there are tensions and potential inconsistencies... extent that teaching seems to be an immensely complex and multifaceted activity, involving a wide variety of human qualities and attributes, certain well-nigh exclusive contemporary analyses of pedagogy in terms of skill and technique would appear to be dangerously and damagingly procrustean However, although it seems far-fetched to maintain that teaching is entirely reducible to skills in the manner... EDUCATION, TEACHING AND PROFESSIONALISM construal of profession, but ‘not always’ to the question of whether teaching is a professional activity But even if education and teaching are not the same thing, they are clearly related in conceptually and practically significant ways, and it will therefore be a crucial task of this section not just to head off dangerous confusion of education with teaching (and. .. teaching, it is arguable that there are normative or evaluative constraints on teaching, which are less technical and aesthetic, more moral or ethical Good teaching is not just teaching which is causally effective or personally attractive, it is teaching which seeks at best to promote the moral, psychological and physical well-being of learners, and at least to avoid their psychological, physical and. .. knowledge and set skills—hold them accountable for having failed to improve the general characters of their pupils On the other hand, it is common for parents, employers and politicians to hold teachers in schools to account for the moral development of pupils.6 There is thus a broad and crude distinction to be drawn here between teaching in the more limited contexts of training, and teaching in the broader . w0 h0" alt="" PROFESSIONALISM AND ETHICS IN TEACHING Professionalism and Ethics in Teaching examines the ethical issues in teaching. After discussing the moral implications of professionalism, the. Education, teaching and professionalism 1 1 Teaching and education 3 2 Professions, professionalism and professional ethics 21 3 Teaching and professionalism 39 PART II Educational theory and professional. Kilpi ETHICAL ISSUES IN ACCOUNTING Edited by Catherine Gowthorpe and John Blake ETHICS AND VALUES IN HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT Edited by Souzy Dracopoulou ii PROFESSIONALISM AND ETHICS IN TEACHING David