Ethics in Professional Education

<p>Recent years have seen a growing emphasis on ethics education in different professions such as medicine and teaching. However the implications of this emphasis for professional education programs have been underdeveloped. In this volume philosophers philosophers of education and ethics educators engaged in a variety of professional contexts in Canada the UK Norway Malta and Sweden assess the state of ethics education and the role if any of philosophical approaches to ethics for those professional contexts. </p><p>This volume speaks to teacher medical and business education and the education of school psychologists. Each of these fields has its own context aims and expertise generating distinctive ethical challenges. As such ethics curricula cannot be uncritically transplanted from one professional context to another. Nonetheless the arguments and analyses in this volume point to a shared concern about the role of moral respect self-understanding and virtue in the education of professionals. The chapters examine a wide range of topics including empirical ethics core concepts in professional ethics moral agency the ethics of ethics education risk-taking professional ethics as a practice with its own ethical requirements and the tensions between the individual (client patient student) and the increasing generalization of professional systems. This book was originally published as a special issue of <i>Ethics in Education. </i></p>