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Understanding, acting, verbalizing and persevering - Swedish teachers' perspectives on important ethical competences for students
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- Lilja, Annika, 1963 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för didaktik och pedagogisk profession,Department of Pedagogical, Curricular and Professional Studies
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- Osbeck, Christina, 1969 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för didaktik och pedagogisk profession,Department of Pedagogical, Curricular and Professional Studies
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- 2019-10-23
- 2020
- English.
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In: Journal of Moral Education. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0305-7240 .- 1465-3877. ; 49:4, s. 512-528
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- The delicate question of teaching ethics in compulsory school regained urgency in Sweden in 2013 when national tests were introduced in religious education, of which ethics is a part. In this article, a variety of ethical competences that teachers want their students to develop are presented, based on group interviews with 46 teachers. Grounded theory analyses show four main categories of ethical competence—to understand, to act, to verbalize and to persevere—which furthermore differ in what they are being directed towards. In addition, the categories are interpreted in relation to the ethical voices of Benhabib, Nussbaum, Løgstrup and Singer. The study shows that teachers view ethical competence as a combination of specific competences and certain directions that these competences work in defence of, indicating a broader perspective than the one shown in the national syllabus, which in turn supports previous research emphasizing teachers’ nuanced understanding of ethical concepts.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Utbildningsvetenskap -- Didaktik (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Educational Sciences -- Didactics (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Ethical competence
- teachers’ perspectives
- ethical voices
- compulsory school
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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