Rethinking Reflection and Ethics for Teachers

Chapter 1. The importance of rethinking reflection and ethics for education.- Part 1: Professional standards, codes, ethics and values.- Chapter 2. Understanding and interrogating professional standards.- Chapter 3.- Teaching through ethical tensions: Between social justice, authority and professional codes.- Chapter 4. Teacher responsibility.- Chapter 5. Teacher reflexivity: An important dimension of a teacher's growth.- Chapter 6. Teachers, clergy, scholls and paedophilia: Making a mockery of the duty of care.- Chapter 7. Reflecting together on spiritual possibility.- Part 2: Reflection for Teaching and Learning.- Chapter 8. How have you been? On existential reflection and thoughtful teaching.- Chapter 9. What are we doing? Reflecting on the purpose of education - and where such reflection might lead.- Chapter 10. Reflection, contemplation and teacher problem-solving in the world(s) of the classroom.- Chapter 11. Renegotiating reflective and ethical practice in a liquid education system.- Part 3: Transitioning to Professional Practice.- Chapter 12. A socially critical approach to community and parental engagement: A matter of professional ethics.- Chapter 13. Postscript: To fabricate or authenticate our self as teacher?.

R Scott Webster is the coordinator for the 'Curriculum, Pedagogy and Professional Learning' teaching and research group at the School of Education. Scott began his career in 1986 in North Queensland as a secondary HPE, Science and Maths teacher. He has also worked and studied in the UK and USA, and is the author of Educating for Meaningful Lives and co-author of Understanding the Curriculum: The Australian context.

John D Whelen has taught in Catholic, Independent and State schools in Victoria, Australia for thirty years, and gained his PhD late in his career. He was a teaching associate in secondary education at Monash University and is an Associate Fellow of the faculty of Education there. He is the author of Boys and their schooling. The experience of becoming someone else.