Values in education: a challenge for teacher educators

The Moral Nature of Teacher Candidate Beliefs About the Purposes of Schooling and Their Reasons for Choosing Teaching as a Career

“…First, it is interesting that our teacher candidates even mention the word "moral" in their responses. As an increasing number of teacher education researchers suggest, moral language is missing from teacher education programs (see Bergem, 1992;Sockett & LePage, 2002;Thornberg, 2008;and Willemse, Lunenberg, & Korthagen, 2005). Not only is it rare for teacher candidates to spontaneously discuss schooling in explicitly moral terms, but they are also particularly reticent to even mention the word "moral" in classroom discussions related to the moral work of teaching.…”

Teaching ethics through court judgments in Finance, Accounting, Economics and Business

“…More attention should be paid not only to academic excellence, dialogic pedagogy and the social significance of teaching materials (Zhonghai 2012) but also to ethical reasoning in order to link business and society (Carroll & Buchholtz, 2008). Consequently, teaching is not only a technical endeavour, but also an ethical and moral one (Campbell 2003, Shapira-Lishchinsky 2011, 648, Sanger & Osguthorpe 2005, Mahony, 2009, Willemse, et al, 2005. This by no implies a rigid set of rules.…”

A Survey of Values Education and its Connection with Character Education

“…In short, it could be interpreted that concepts of the school culture, values of that school and moral attitudes of the same school are inseparable. Willemse et al (2005) believe that teacher educators' teaching is always a moral activity. They state (2005) that "teacher educators express personal values in the way they relate to their students, and they must stimulate their student teachers to develop their own values and norms, and to become teachers who are aware of the ways in which they express their own values through their teaching."…”

“…They state (2005) that "teacher educators express personal values in the way they relate to their students, and they must stimulate their student teachers to develop their own values and norms, and to become teachers who are aware of the ways in which they express their own values through their teaching." Moreover, they need to prepare candidate teachers to assist their students to improve values and norms, and prepare them for citizenship (Willemse et al 2005). In the Netherlands, teachers are expected to develop their awareness of values, be explicit about them, and create opportunities for students to improve their own sets of norms and values (Willemse et al 2005).…”