- Title
- Reading the im/possibility of ethics in pre-service teacher professional experiences
- Creator
- Forster, Daniella
- Relation
- 43rd PESA International Conference. 43rd PESA Conference 2013: Measuring Up in Education (Melbourne 6-9 December, 2013) p. 56-63
- Relation
- http://pesa.org.au/conference/conference-archive/77-conference-2013-melbourne-6-9-december-2013
- Publisher
- Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA)
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- This work begins to deconstruct the ‘obligations’ pre-service teachers name and not-name in a reflection on a collection of ‘ethical events’ articulated in a capstone teacher education course that explored their philosophies of teaching and applied ethics. Obligation is more of a “matter of being claimed, in which something has a hold on us… that has us before we have it” (Caputo, p. 31) rather than the holding of a value or principle or claim for the enduring Good. In an attempt to recognise the explosiveness of the problem of respecting alterity in writing about ethics one has an obligation to consider the ethical demands of interpretation and the groundlessness of ethics itself. Deconstruction provides the im/possibility of writing about proper names and particularities which are the condition for allowing us to speak about justice. Acknowledging the variety of contemporary research in the area of ethics in teaching my analysis of these pre-service teachers’ writings traces major concepts and traditions in modern ethics that may have been used in alternative readings to characterise these subjective phenomena and potentially bring deeper meaning to the role morality of teaching. Reading these texts for the ‘possibility of ethics’ one might see implications for the devolution of ethical standardisation in teaching as what it means to take responsibility for responsibility as a teacher educator.
- Subject
- possibility of ethics; obligation; teacher education
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1062510
- Identifier
- uon:17098
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780646904191
- Language
- eng
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