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: Sheron Fraser-Burgess is Professor of Social Foundations of Education/Multicultural Education at Ball State University, USA. Her research focuses on the political implications of social identity and positionality for education in democracy. This inquiry clusters around moral, political, and epistemological questions as they pertain to Black consciousness.