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Teaching with Integrity: The Ethics of Higher Education Practice book cover

1st Edition

Teaching with Integrity The Ethics of Higher Education Practice

By Bruce Macfarlane Copyright 2004
196 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge
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This is a book about the ethics of teaching in the context of higher education. While many books focus on the broader socially ethical topics of widening participation and promoting equal opportunities, this unique book concentrates specifically on the lecturer's professional responsibilities. It covers the real-life, messy, everyday moral dilemmas that confront university teachers when dealing... Read more
Part 1: The professional and ethical context 1. The pedagogic gap 2. The lost dimension 3. The case method Part 2: Professional practice 4. Teaching 5. Assessing 6. Evaluating 7. Managing Part 3: Identifying the virtues 8. Points of departure 9. Teaching with integrity 10. Virture under pressure

Biography

Bruce Macfarlane

'Overall, this is an enjoyable book written in a lucid style with clear guidelines, supported by case studies ... Put forward as fresh thought on the processes and contexts of higher education teaching, the book provides practical guidance on professional and ethical aspects of university teaching and is a reminder to senior university management of the intrinsically valuable and difficult task of teaching in a mass higher education context.' - William Scarff, University of Wolverhampton Business School, UK

Reviewed in the Times Higher Education Supplement 'Ethics means a degree of trust' - '[Bruce Macfarlane] argues that in order for learners to think critically and challenge conventional wisdom, the lecturer's first ethical consideration must be to protect and foster student academic freedom.'

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