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Teacher Education as a Moral Endeavor

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In this chapter the moral aspects of teaching and schooling are addressed, with an eye toward highlighting elements that are apt for consideration and reflection in the context of teacher education. The chapter starts with a review of the recent literature in this domain of inquiry by making a distinction between 'teaching morally' and 'teaching morality'. Drawing on this distinction, various theoretical approaches are discussed in the context of teacher preparation programmes and practices. This discussion of theoretical approaches leads to an analysis of what is still missing in our knowledge of the moral work of teaching, focussing on perspectives that deserve more explicit attention or are ripe for more explicit connection in teacher education. To illustrate the meaningful knowledge elements that could be better articulated, different perspectives on moral values in teacher education are discussed including the transfer-,clarification-,discourse ,development-,character education-,and moral sensitivity perspective. Attention is also paid to several social and societal processes that make the moral work of teaching more complicated than everadressing, processes like individualization-(including emancipation),secularization, globalzation(including migration) and post-modern thinking. The chapter ends with an elaboration of three important themes in this field of teacher preparation: the teacher as a moral exemplar, implicit moral education as-the hidden curriculum, and the school as a moral community and organization.

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