Description: This Handbook provides an interdisciplinary discussion on the role and complexity of ethics in education. Its central aim is to democratise scholarship by highlighting diverse voices, ideas, and places. It is organised into three sections, each examining ethics from a different perspective: ethics and education historically; ethics within institutional practice, and emerging ethical frameworks in education. Important questions are raised and discussed, such as the role of past ethical traditions in contemporary education, how educators should confront ethical dilemma, how schools should be organised to serve all children, and how pluralism, democracy, and technology impact ethics in education. It offers new insights and opportunities for renewal in the complex and often contentious task of ethics and education.
Brief description: Jessica Heybach is Associate Professor and Program Director of Graduate Studies in Educational Leadership at Florida International University, USA. She is interested in the philosophical study of power, justice, equity, and gender in education and the ethics of democratic schooling in a pluralistic world. She is currently the editor of Education & Culture of The John Dewey Society and The Cultural and Social Foundations of Education for The Palgrave Pivot.