Action, Reflection, and Social Justice: Integrating Moral Reasoning Into Professional Development

Action, Reflection, and Social Justice: Integrating Moral Reasoning Into Professional Development
ISBN-10
1572738480
ISBN-13
9781572738485
Pages
275
Language
English
Published
2009
Publisher
Hampton Press
Author
Edward P. St. John

Description

The troubling gap between moral values and professional action poses a serious problem for professional education that is not easily resolved by offering courses on ethics or moral development. This text provides a new framework for profesors and practitioners who are seeking deeper integration of moral reasoning into professional education and interventions. Using action research in leadership classes, along with studies of interventions in schools and colleges, the author tests claims embedded in theories of action science, reflective proactice, adult development, and communicative action, to develop his new framework for professional development and intervention.