Browsing Scholarship of Teaching and Learning by Subject "Ethics"
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Analysing the professional development of teaching and learning from a political ethics of care perspective
(Routledge, 2014)This paper uses Tronto’s political ethics of care as a normative framework to evaluate a model of teaching and learning professional development. This framework identifies five integrated moral elements of care – ... -
A collaborative auto-ethnographic exploration of socially just practices by new academics in two South African higher education institutions
(South African Journal of Higher Education, 2018)Challenges experienced in the higher education context require new academics to engage with issues of social justice in their pedagogical practices. This article focuses on such challenges and how these are met by the ... -
Development of students’ academic literacies viewed through a political ethics of care lens
(South African Journal of Higher Education, 2018)This article explores insights which the political ethics of care (Tronto 1993; 2013) offers to academic literacies development of students. Research on ethics of care has been conducted in contexts ranging from micro to ... -
Editorial: The ethics of care and academic development
(South African Journal of Higher Education, 2018)Higher education institutions have commonly understood ethics and care as separate functions, rather than as an integrated practice, and have tended to delegate these responsibilities to research ethics committees, ... -
Ethical considerations in using student data in an era of ‘big data’
(2015)Learning with technology enables the collection of data on students at a level unprecedented in face-to-face tuition and paper-based academic administration. Universities see the advantage in tracking students’ engagement ... -
Incubating a slow pedagogy in professional academic development: An ethics of care perspective
(South African Journal of Higher Education, 2018)The current neoliberal impetus in higher education has effects on all aspects of academic life, including professional academic development. These effects include increasing workloads and more casualisation of academic ... -
Student learning at the interface of university and industry relating to engineering professionalism
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)The engineering profession is challenged with ensuring engineering students are prepared to work within industry in a professional and ethical manner. Reflection on the experience of professional practice is a key element ...