The Moral Core of Teaching
1Department of Teacher Education, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
2Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 1V6
3Department of Education, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6PY, UK
4Faculty of Education and Arts, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia
The Moral Core of Teaching
Description
Nowadays, schools all over the world are under a pressure to create safe, orderly, and effective learning environments where students can acquire social as well as academic skills that will allow them to succeed in school and beyond. Over the last two decades, student populations—and also teachers—have become increasingly diverse. Students and teachers sharing the same school can come from a broad range of cultures and socioeconomical backgrounds. Schools face the challenge of creating pedagogical environments that are sensitive to numerous individual backgrounds in order to support students' social and academic success. In this kind of educational atmosphere the moral core of teaching and the teacher's role as a moral educator are important issues in school pedagogy. Furthermore, updated research illustrates that pedagogy imbued with a moral core has ramifications for student wellbeing and achievement.
The main focus of this special issue will be on the moral core of teaching. The special issue will become an international forum for researchers to summarize the most recent developments and ideas in the field, with a special emphasis given to the role teachers should take in moral education in schools. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- The values and ethics in teaching
- The moral nature of teaching
- Teachers' moral competencies
- Pedagogical approaches to moral education
- The role of religion and spirituality in teaching
- The possibilities of character education
- Moral education in different school subjects
- International trends in moral education
- Moral education and student achievement
- Service learning as moral teaching
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