Ethics and Professional Practice – Part 2 of 3
April 27, 2020
- Date: Wednesday 27th May 2020
- Time: 4:30pm (Hong Kong Time (UTC +7))
- Registration: Click here to register
This webinar is open to all.
IPDA Hong Kong is delighted to introduce the next instalment in the series of #IPDAconversations webinars.
This Webinar:
This is Part 2 of a series of three related webinars exploring ‘Ethics and Professional Practice in Education’ led by Dr. David Aldridge, Brunel University London.
Part 1: Ethics as constitutive of educational practice
This seminar will explore the claim that ethics are not only important in educational practice but are constitutive of what makes such process ‘educational’, with reference to contemporary interest in AI and education.
As teachers in important ways we do not know what we are doing when we are teaching and we do not know in advance what we want to get out of teaching. These are not intended as expressions of the limitations of teachers, but rather a recognition of the inseparably ethical nature of a teacher’s classroom judgements – which are, amongst other things, situated judgements about what is actually desirable in any given educational situation. Unless we endorse a narrowly technicising view of learning, ethics goes all the way down in classroom practice. Ethical responsibility could not therefore be retained as a function of a teacher or policy maker who makes decisions about whether to apply an AI’s diagnostic recommendation; rather, ethical concerns are constitutive of whatever processes or outcomes we wish to call educational.
Pre-reading (shared with participants following registration):
Selwyn, N (2019) Should robots replace teachers? Cambridge: Polity, p. 1-26
About Dr. David Aldridge:
David Aldridge is Director of Research in the Department of Education at Brunel University London. He is an editor of the British Educational Research Journal and assistant editor of the Journal of Philosophy of Education. His research interests are literature and education, moral and religious education, and the relationship between technology and education.
How to Participate:
This webinar will be run using ‘Zoom’. Please ensure you have this downloaded prior to joining the webinar. A link to join the webinar will be sent to all participants one day prior.
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