The Professional Ethics of Teaching

After clarifying the crucial concept of incommensurability and defending value-pluralism as a non-relativistic idea I argue that an incommensurable choice can be made through practical wisdom and that teachers can reflect on and be responsible for their decisions by making ‘second order choices’ and ‘strong evaluations’. I conclude that teachers should be open to self-examination of their teaching through exercising virtues for judgement pedagogic phronesis and professional liberty in their teaching. I also suggest some ways in which teacher education may help to close the gap between the novice and experienced teachers.