With an additional emphasis on morality as it pertains to teaching as a vocation, Moral Thought in Educational Practice examines the objectives of teacher education and offers an account of moral purposes within the knowledge base for teaching.
Teacher professional development requires a dynamic vision of education. This work argues that teaching and teacher education are moral rather than technical or instrumental endeavours, and describes an innovative master's programme for practicing teachers founded in 1992.
The challenge this book addresses is to demonstrate how, in teaching content knowledge, the development of intellectual and moral dispositions as virtues is not merely a good idea, or peripheral to that content, but deeply embedded in the logic of searching for knowledge and truth.