Rethinking Reflection and Ethics for Teachers

This book reexamines reflection and ethics for teachers, and argues the case for ensuring teaching practices are educational and professional rather than simply technical or clinical. Demonstrating that theory is indispensable when it comes to professional deliberation and educational practice, the authors draw on their experience to provide insights for teachers that will enable them to become better professional educators.

This collection of research chapters, written by established researchers and educators in the field who are familiar with a variety of teaching contexts and are conversant with the current teaching standards and policies relating to teaching and teacher education, is a valuable resource for practicing teachers, researchers, policy-makers as well as for final-year student-teachers in Initial Teacher Education programs. Further, it enables early career teachers to meet their professional responsibilities in a more critically informed and capable manner.

R Scott Webster is the coordinator for the 'Curriculum, Pedagogy and Professional Learning' teaching and research group at the School of Education.  Scott began his career in 1986 in North Queensland as a secondary HPE, Science and Maths teacher. He has also worked and studied in the UK and USA, and is the author of Educating for Meaningful Lives and co-author of Understanding the Curriculum: The Australian context.

John D Whelen has taught in Catholic, Independent and State schools in Victoria, Australia for thirty years, and gained his PhD late in his career.  He was a teaching associate in secondary education at Monash University and is an Associate Fellow of the faculty of Education there.  He is the author of Boys and their schooling. The experience of becoming someone else.