Post on 23-Dec-2015
A “good” teacher-teaching ethically
Professional ethics?
• Professional ethics are implied in practice, not always visible and mostly unspoken
• Professional ethics seem not to build on knowledge, but personal feelings and beliefs (Colnerud & Granström, 2002, Thornberg, 2008)
How do all this affect learning professional ethics in teacher education?
Professional ethics need to be discussed and problematized through didactic plans and implementation
Research questions
• What does it mean to teach ethically (what is the essence of professional ethics)?
• How do student teachers learn to teach ethically?
LIFEWORLD THEORY
LIFE WORLD:Heidegger, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer When you direct yourself at something and interpret
it as something, lifeworld is shaped.Different lifeworlds meet in teaching and affect teachingContext decides how student teachers need to actLevinas
The encounter with the Other rises an inevitable requirement of ethical responsibility
Methodology
Reflective lifeworld research (RLR)Find the essential meaning of the phenomenon,
professional ethics• Openness, bridling, reflecting• Moving between whole-part• Systematic analysis, meaning units, cluster
Method
• Data: Different texts, for example didactic plans, observations and interviews with ten students, educating themselves as teachers of children from preschool up to elementary school.
• Second to fourth semester
Essence
Professional ethics mean to intertwine learning and relationships
Getting to know the children and their needs will strengthen the opportunities to help them developing.
Professional ethics mean to use experiences to the child´s best
When meeting children, your own experiences can be valuable in understanding the child but you should never let your own feelings or needs take over.
Essence
Professional ethics mean to include each childRegardless of the difficulties it means to let the
child participate. You have a responsibility to include everybody and meet each child on its own terms.
Professional ethics mean to be an authoritative but not authoritarian
The authority is created through an atmosphere of joy, respect and security.
Essence
Professional ethics mean an ambiguity that demands responsible decisions.
Uncertainty makes learning of professional ethics difficult. Student teachers do not always understand why placement teachers act as they do.
Professional ethics are developed when theory and practice are entwined in reflection
Students are telling that they sometimes just do but afterwards think about the situation.
Didethics-model in three stepsStep 1
Ethics:Attitudes
Values/normsMeanings of professional
ethics
Topic:Curricula
Different levelsCurrent
Methods:How do we actually
work to put together ethics and curricula?
Step 2
Pedagogue
• Preunderstanding• Responsibility• Curricula and
professional ethics are interwoven in a planning with suitable methods
Meeting
• The planning is transformed
• Implementation• Children and
pedagogue as agents
Children
• Preunderstanding
Step 3
Didethical planning
Transformation in practice
meeting the children
Reflection
Learning to teach ethically
Dispositions– self-awareness– what values do I express in my actions?– learning in practice
Judgment– balancing act– context– learning in practice
Reflection– self-reflection