The Cambridge Handbook of Ethics and Education

If education both sustains and transforms society, ethics identifies emerging moral dilemmas and generates new possible pathways.

Sheron Fraser-Burgess (Edited by), Jessica Heybach (Edited by), Dini Metro-Roland (Edited by)

9781009188111, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 14 March 2024

902 pages
26.2 x 18.5 x 5.3 cm, 1.85 kg

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.

Part I. Traditions in Ethics and Education: 1. Ancient Chinese ethics and education Charlene Tan
2. Ancient Greek and Roman ethics and education Kirsten Welch
3. Ubuntu ethics and education in Southern Africa Agrippa Chingombe and Thenjiwe Major
4. Ethical & environmental knowledge and education: indigenous cultures from Latin America Angelica Serna Jeri
5. Ethics, education, and the inheritance of Abraham: an essay in the pedagogy of difference Hanan Alexander
6. Prioritizing outcomes: utilitarian ethics and education Tal Gilead
7. Freedom and the ethics of educational authority Chris Martin
8. Moral education in the virtues Michael Pritchard and Elaine E. Englehardt
9. The ethics of bildung and liberal education Seamus Mulryan
10. American pragmatism and democratic ethics, and education Leonard Waks, Chris Voparil, and Justina Torrance
11. Radical ethics: Marxism and Habermasian critical theory Katie Haus and Barbara Dennis
12. The ethics of phenomenology and hermeneutics in education Clarence Joldersma
13. Feminist ethics and the contradictions of gender Cris Mayo
14 Postmodern-Poststructuralist ethics and education Marianna Papastephanou
Part II. Ethics and Education in Practice: Perennial Dilemmas: 15. Why educate? Competing ethical frameworks in the practice of education Liz Jackson
16. The displacement of ethics in education through educational standardization Austin Pickup
17. School health policies and practices: ethical entanglements and a call for criticality Carolyn Pluim and Michael Gard
18. Value creation and happiness in education: Considerations for a post-truth world Jason Goulah
19. Childhood and the sovereignty of good Megan Laverty
20. School discipline and the ethics of managing behavior Bryan Warnick
21. Educating all children: The legacy of race in education Beththena Johnson and Winston Thompson
22. Decolonizing curriculum: indigenization and critical settler consciousness Stephany Runninghawk Johnson and Keola Birano
23. The political necessity and perilous ambiguity of 'academic freedom' John E. Petrovic and Shelby J. Morris
24. Teacher activism and ethical speech: strikes, labor actions, and ethical responsibility Pam Konkol and Isable Nunez
25. The spectre of agreement: a contractarian analysis of market ethics in education Kenneth Driggers and Deron Boyles
26. Philosophical reflections on ethics of teaching and teacher education Janet Orchard
27. The ethical dimension of educating educators: cruel optimism, professional development, and the need for new ethical attachments Jessica Heybach and Johnny Lupinacci
Part III. Emerging Ethical Pathways and Frameworks: 28. Defining moral responsibility for school leaders in times of democratic crisis Kathleen Knight Abowitz
29. Convivialism, interdependence, and education: new conceptions of human and planetary flourishing Claudia Ruitenberg
30. New existentialism Myron Jackson
31. Antiracist moral and civic education Lawrence Blum
32. A decolonial feminist perspective: saving ethics of care from white saviorism YiBing Quek
33. Ethics and mindful leadership in education Charlene Tan
34. Ethics as a field discipline in the classroom: an homage to Greta Thunberg Charles Verharen
35. Centering an environmental ethic in climate crisis Charlie Kurth and Panu Pihkala
36. Ethical inquiry in educational research Aaron Kuntz
37. Education and the technological horizon Paul Farber
38. 'There should be republican virtues here': Teaching in credal deep pluralism Sheron Fraser-Burgess and Chris Higgins
39. A pragmatic approach to ethics in education Ben Paxton
40. Spectatorship, black bodies, and urban education: womanist excavations of binding inner visions David Humphrey, Jr. and Sheron Fraser-Burgess.

Subject Areas: Educational psychology [JNC]