Malone, Anthony
(2017)
Embedding ethical agency in initial teacher education: The professional master of education.
Bordon-Revista De Pedagogia, 69 (4).
pp. 109-123.
ISSN 0210-5934
Abstract
This article is a companion article to the preceding one: “Shaping a New
Ethical Landscape in Teacher Education”. It offers a systematic account and a critical review of
a new departure in the professional education of teachers in Ireland. In particular, it explores
how the teacher education rationale developed at the National University of Ireland Maynooth
has been advanced in a new key and embedded carefully into practice. The opportunity to do
so arose as the main teaching qualification for Irish secondary teachers became a Master’s level
programme: the Professional Master of Education (PME). METHOD. The methodology is that
of a critical case study. It seeks to identify illuminating insights for broadly comparable cases.
It focuses in particular on pioneering initiatives that directly engage the practitioner’s ethical
capacities in the learning experiences provided in the new Master’s programme. There are
three main parts, followed by a Résumé and Conclusions. The first part examines the concrete
curriculum innovations necessary to bring the strengthening of ethical capacity to the core of
the programme. The second and third parts examine more closely the main features of the new
programme and examine the feedback gathered from the first cohort of students. The Conclusion
provides an appraisal of the significance of the new directions charted by the PME in the context
of the challenging demands democratic society now makes on teachers. RESULTS. The results
show that the students have very largely embraced the challenges of the new programme and
have willingly embarked on initiatives that strengthen their ethical capacities as practitioners.
DISCUSSION. Throughout the article the discussion reviews the promise of the new emphasis on
ethical capability, not just for this cohort of students but for the field of teacher education itself
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
Pedagogic practice; Critical-creative; Ethical agency; Initial teacher education; Democratic;
Dialogic; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Education |
| Item ID: |
11423 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.13042/Bordon.2017.690408 |
| Depositing User: |
Anthony Malone
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| Date Deposited: |
23 Oct 2019 16:20 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Bordon-Revista De Pedagogia |
| Publisher: |
Centro Ciencias Humanas & Sociales-CSIC |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| URI: |
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| Use Licence: |
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