Sally Hawkins & Carol Hughes 
Thinking Through Ethics and Values in Primary Education 

Thinking Through Ethics and Values in Primary Education is an accessible text that encourages readers to explore deeply the ethics and values surrounding primary education. The text helps the reader to critically reflect on the principles that underpin education. Specifically written for education students in the later years of their course, the text draws on research and practice to explore the challenges and opportunities involved, while helping to develop the reader′s own critical thinking skills.

The book begins by asking ′what are ethics and values?′ and goes on to explore social diversity and society and education. It considers ethics and values and the curriculum, school organisation and the classroom. A chapter on ethics, values and the teacher encourages the reader to examine their own thoughts about education. Throughout, practical guidance runs alongside structured critical thinking exercises to help the reader and reflect on both theory and practice.

About the Series

Thinking Through Education is a new series of texts designed and written specifically for those education students entering the second or final phase of their degree course. Structured around sets of specific ′skills′, each chapter uses critical thinking and reflective exercises to develop greater subject knowledge and critical awareness.

Table of Content

Introduction – Gianna Knowles

What are Ethics and Values? – Gianna Knowles

Ethics, Values and Social Diversity – Vini Lander

What Does Society Want from Education – What Does it Value about Education? – Gianna Knowles and Vini Lander

Ethics, Values and the Curriculum – Linda Copper

Ethics and Values in School Organisation – How Should Schools be Lead and Managed? – Barbara Thompson

Ethics and Values in the Classroom – Classroom Management and Managing Behaviour – Sally Hawkins and Carol Hughes

Children and Young People – Linda Cooper

Ethics, Values and the Teacher? – Glenn Stone

About the author

Linda Cooper is a lecturer in Education Studies at the University of Chichester. She has worked in education for sixteen years both as a primary school teacher and as a lecturer. Before commencing her post at Chichester, Linda also worked at Portsmouth University as a lecturer in Early Childhood Studies and at Bishop Grosseteste University College, Lincoln with the Initial Teacher Training team. She has a range of interests and has published in the field of technology, physical development and the humanities.