Towards an Architecture for the Teaching of Virtues, Values and Ethics

ISBN-13: 9783034318914 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 314 str.

Berise Therese Heasly

Opis

This book, based on extensive qualitative research carried out among teachers in Australia, New Zealand and the UK, explores a new approach to teaching virtues, values and ethics in the twenty-first century. Drawing on both education studies and philosophy, the author uses inductive methods of analysis and synthesis to construct a renewed theory of education founded on teaching thinking skills. This theory, based on Donald E. Ingber s work on tensegrity, is complemented by practical pedagogical tools which can enhance students thinking skills and support both personal and professional decision-making in a democratic classroom setting."

Spis treści

Contents: Finding the Questions - Answering the Questions: Listening to Many Voices - Voices in the Literature: A Multi-Disciplinary Search - Practitioner Voices: My Voice, Teachers' Voices, and Experts' Voices - Auto-Ethnographical Retrospective - From Twelve «Categories of Influence» to the Concept of Edu-tensegrity - A new architecture for teaching virtues and values - Reshaping Curriculum: Linking Applied Thinking Skills to Ethics - Reshaping the Values, Virtues, and Ethics (VVE) Future: Responses, response-abilities and responsibilities.

O autorze

Berise Therese Heasly spent thirty-six years as a secondary school teacher, teaching Music, English, History, Social Studies, Business Studies, Religious Studies and Ethics. She holds a PhD from Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia.