Over the past twenty or so years, TATE has published numerous
articles exploring one or another aspect of the ethical or moral
nature of teaching. Using a variety of descriptors e ethics and
teaching, teacher values, teacher beliefs, ethical issues in teaching,
teaching and moral development among several others e some 92
articles were located that in one or anotherway attend to the ethical
and moral dimensions of teaching. By carefully reading the abstracts
of these articles seeking to identify those centrally concerned with
ethical and moral issues, this number was reduced to 22, each of
whichwas read, outlined, then re-read. While most of the 22 articles
will find a place in this review, only ten will be highlighted, however.
These ten articles were selected for three reasons: (1) they represent
what appear to be the dominant albeit evolving concerns of
researchers writing for TATE; (2) when brought together they reveal
some of the possibilities and challenges associated with studying
ethical and moral matters in teaching; and (3) they include research
conducted by an international group of scholars.
Reviews of each of the ten articles will be organized around three
categories: (1) area of concern or central issue; (2) mode of inquiry;
and (3) central conclusions and commentary. While itwas tempting
to present the articles chronologically as a means for suggesting
something about how the scholarly discourse has developed and
evolved across the pages of TATE, such an organization ultimately
proved unsatisfactory. The scholarly conversations about teaching,
ethics and morality, are multiple and here and there contending.
Hence, a more focused and dialogical organization was sought, one
that would facilitate engagement and enable comparison