The Implications of Bioethics for Teachers and Teacher Researchers
Titel:
The Implications of Bioethics for Teachers and Teacher Researchers
Auteur:
Lovat, Terence J.
Verschenen in:
British educational research journal
Paginering:
Jaargang 20 (1994) nr. 2 pagina's 187-196
Jaar:
1994
Inhoud:
The teacher as researcher movement has, among other things, increased awareness of the human interventionary nature of teaching. In turn, in a day and age of heightened ethical consciousness, the human interventionary nature of teaching has thrust the profession into the forefront of those requiring ethical direction. To the extent that the teacher role is one of human intervention, the question of its ethical parameters must be posed. The human interventions of regular classroom practice must be seen as being subject to the same ethical scrutiny which inveighs in professional life generally. Even more so, when the teacher role moves closer to that of researcher, involving intervention with students, parents, consultants and the community which goes beyond normal classroom interaction, the ethical constraints pertinent to all human research intervention must apply. In either case, albeit differently, new sensitivities and legal trends in many Western countries are impinging on ethical consciousness in the teaching profession. The paper proposes that the principles of bioethics, a subdiscipline which has impacted particularly on the medical profession, may well offer suitable guidelines by which the human interventions of the teacher and the teacher researcher might be evaluated for their ethical suitability and propriety.
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