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In this final chapter, Whelen and Webster invite the reader to reflect upon teachers as ethicists through the personal stories of three early career teachers—James, Helen and Derryn. Each of these teachers share their personal struggles as they attempt to pursue a sense of an authentic self who teaches rather than fabricating another identity who conforms to what the particular system and context seems to require of them. Through engaging with these raw accounts, the reader is invited to reflect on how the material offered throughout this book might be drawn upon and engaged with in order to help guide these teachers—and themselves—towards being a teacher in an authentic sense where, in addition to working with pedagogical strategies, one understands oneself as educator and ethicist.
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Whelen, J.D., Webster, R.S. (2019). Postscript: To Fabricate or Authenticate Our Self as Teacher?. In: Webster, R., Whelen, J. (eds) Rethinking Reflection and Ethics for Teachers. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9401-1_13
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