Article Review: Teaching Ethics in Education - University Assignment

This article review examines Daniella J. Forster's article, "Teaching Through Ethical Tensions: Between Social Justice, Authority and Professional Codes." The review highlights the inherent ethical dilemmas in teaching, stemming from the need to educate students and navigate complex situations bound by time, content, and place. The author emphasizes the importance of ethical sensitivity, especially for preservice teachers, in addressing issues of social justice, resource allocation, and school hierarchies. The review underscores the primary tensions between teachers' moral agency and justice arguments, as well as the need for teachers to protect students and foster effective learning environments. It also explores how teachers can develop awareness regarding ethical dilemmas in teaching. The study also determines the primary tensions that happen between the moral agency of the sense of the teachers and values having the focus over arguments of justices. The review concludes by emphasizing the critical role of teachers in promoting safety, health, and learning, and the ongoing relevance of ethical standards within the teaching profession.

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Article Name: “Teaching Through Ethical Tensions: Between Social Justice,
Authority and Professional Codes”
Author’s Name: Daniella J. Forster
As per their very nature, the teaching always invites various ethical dilemmas. This is
because of the constant necessity of coping with and then educating charges. It is never a surprising
fact that it is a moral task and highly driven by values. Here, the complexity of teaching is seen to be
bound through time, content, tasks and place can lead to various cases where ethical issues can
happen. Again, the teachers have seen own self to juggle with numerous obligations for teaching
students and colleagues. Here, the educational research explores various ethical concerns. The
teachers are been insufficiently aware of the moral effects of those activities. Besides, educational
philosophers are been concerned with the various moral level of dilemmas regarding teaching. They
have been arguing that attention must be paid to the necessity of developing awareness of teachers
regarding ethical dilemmas in teaching. This is also useful to determine the way they might be dealt
with. Thus, the ethical stance of a teacher governs the way they instructs and evaluates any student.
The teachers strive to generate the effective learning environment nurturing the fulfilling of
the student’s potential. The article concentrates on the way preservice tutors especially could
develop the ethical sensitivity for the cases they have been finding themselves. Any tutor makes
activities with efficient conscientious efforts for exemplifying the greatest level of ethical standards.
This is in the time as reacting in a critical manner for the various unexamined type of intuitions and
assumptions for assuring that the reactions are been just socially. As per the argument of the author,
to make a moral type of decision has never been simple of the times. Here, the ethical dilemmas
have been strange in nature and this never amenable for simple formulaic resolution or resolution or

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any description. Moreover, the pedagogical value of the dilemma for the professional development
of the teachers is never necessarily seen under sensational confrontation. Rather, the daily and
common complex and subtle situations and tensions could be overlooked easily. This is able to
provide the ethical level of stimuli. Further, the study determines the primary tensions that happen
between the moral agency of the sense of the teachers and values having the focus over arguments of
justices. Apart from that, the teachers have been struggling with various queries regarding
educational drawbacks and disruptive justices that involve resource allocation, stereotyping,
streaming, deficit thinking, and behavior management of the bodies of the students and
dehumanizing along with encountering the efficient of school hierarchies and inequities. Here
instances and evaluation of preserve tutors are highlighted to explore various methods of knowing
modes and justice of the ethical authorities. Besides, they have been fostering social justice at the
bottom line for teacher education. Thus the chapter raises the queries regarding justice that have
been of utmost deserving for exploring various conceptualizations coming from preservice teacher’s
reflections on ethics. Hence, it is understood that the teachers must manifest active and positive role.
The teachers must make constructive efforts for protecting students from the conditions at are
detrimental towards safety health and learning. It is known that for many decades, the experts have
been researching the ethics with ethical behaviors with interests for people at organizations. The fact
can never be denied that virtually every profession comprises of ethical standards and expectations.
The teaching has no exceptions. Again, the definition of any ethical dilemma in the area of teaching
is the situation of a problem that comes out of the various type of conflicts of obligations happening
among different relationships. At this place, the problems with wrong and right are been at stake and
demand complicated decisions regarding suitable responses.

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Bibliography:
Forster, D.J., 2019. Teaching Through Ethical Tensions: Between Social Justice, Authority and
Professional Codes. In Rethinking Reflection and Ethics for Teachers (pp. 33-50). Springer,
Singapore.