Teachers are their own best means of education? An inquiry into the contribution of virtue-ethics for professionals in education
I artikkelen brukes etiske perspektiver fra oldtiden, og moderne etis ke teorier som tar opp i seg de samme perspektivene som grunnlag for å forstå drøfte etiske sider ved det som kanskje kan kalles en nyorie ntering i pedagogisk tenkning det siste tiåret. Denne nyorienteringen identifiseres som en større fokusering på læreren som person, hans/h ennes væremåte og indre kvaliteter som grunnlag for å utvikle gode ut viklings- og læringsbetingelser, i forhold til tidligere fokusering p å lærerens metoder og handlingsvalg som grunnlag for det samme. In the Core Curriculum for Primary, Secondary and Adult Education in Norway, the focus on the teacher as a person is stressed as essential in education. This perspective fits in with a general switch in educ ational thinking over the last decade, a change from focusing on the teacher`s action to the teacher`s manners and inner life.In this essa y I look closer into this perspective and ask questions like; Why are teachers inner qualities important in educational practice? Are teac hers`good manners a means of education? Can an ethical theory for pro fessionals in education be a theory of who the teacher is? To elabora te on this theme I turn to virtue-ethics as an agent-centered approac h to ethics and ask how this approach contribute to a deeper understa nding of the teacher as a person with inner qualities as essential fo r an ethics for professionals in education.
Publisert i 1998
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