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Vignette 10: Comprising Professional Integrity
In my new role as an itinerant teacher, I was asked by a principal to let her know the names of the teachers who were not coming to see me on a regular basis. The same principal asked me to spend some time with a beginning teacher experiencing pedagogical challenges. Near the end of the year, I received an e-mail from the principal requesting that I send her my notes and opinions regarding my visits with the new teacher. I felt my role and my professional integrity were being compromised by this principal’s requests.
Ethical Inquiry Cycle
Ethical Inquiry Dialogic Process
After reading the vignette, educators are invited to engage in critical reflection and dialogue related to the following ethical inquiry process:
1. Experience: Identify the ethical challenge(s), issue(s) or dimensions inherent within this vignette.
2. Reflection: Critically reflect on the underlying values or assumptions that are influencing the professional practices in this vignette.
3. Critical Analysis: Critically analyze this vignette through the ethics of Care, Respect, Trust and Integrity.
4. New Perspectives and Insights: Identify new insights or understandings have been gained from reading this vignette?
Ethical Knowledge and Action
Generate suggestions for enhancing the ethical awareness, sensitivity and ethical efficacy of the educators in this vignette?
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