Teaching with Integrity

by Bruce MacFarlane

This is a book about the ethics of teaching in the context of higher education. While many books focus on the broader socially ethical topics of widening participation and promoting equal opportunities, this unique book concentrates specifically on the lecturer's professional responsibilities.
It covers the real-life, messy, everyday moral dilemmas that confront university teachers when dealing with students and colleagues - whether arising from facilitated discussion in the classroom, deciding whether it is fair to extend a deadline, investigating suspected plagiarism or dealing with complaints.
Bruce Macfarlane analyses the pros and cons of prescriptive professional codes of practice employed by many universities and proposes the active development of professional virtues over bureaucratic recommendations. The material is presented in a scholarly, yet accessible style, and case examples are used throughout to encourage a practical, reflective approach.
Teaching With Integrity seeks to bridge the pedagogic gap currently separating the debate about teaching and learning in higher education from the broader social and ethical environment in which it takes place.

192 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2003

Reviews

[Michael L · Rating 4 out of 5]

MacFarlane provides a British perspective on the ethics of university teaching, without philosophical jargon. He created fictional cases that raise ethical issues, and he used these cases in professional development workshops for university faculty members. In his analyses of the cases, he includes ideas from the workshop participants. He concludes with an approach to the ethics of teaching that emphasizes professional virtues. On the whole, it was definitely worth reading and reflecting on.

[Diana180]

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