Teachers’ Professional Ethics by Tirri and Kuusisto

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ID21511410
AuthorsBruce Maxwell (0000-0002-8632-5599, Université de Montréal, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume54
Issue4
Pages763-768
Publication date2025-10-02
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Moral Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0305-7240 • E-ISSN: 1465-3877
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03057240.2025.2568359
OpenAlexW4415933063
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited3

Teachers’ Professional Ethics explores some of the psychological foundations of ethical teaching, focusing on three key dispositions: moral sensitivity, purpose, and growth mindset. While the book falls short of delivering a comprehensive framework for teacher ethics, it compellingly integrates moral and personality psychology to inform theory, research and practice in educational ethics. Drawing from the Finnish regulatory context, the book envisions ethical teaching as contributing to a professional community whose mission is to advance each student’s best educational interest and support their holistic development as persons. Its strength lies in empirically grounded chapters that explore how these psychological traits support principled reasoning and professional reflection. However, the book’s conceptual clarity is hampered by unaddressed ambiguities about its audience, scope, and theoretical positioning. At times, it also overlooks critical perspectives on the feasibility and philosophical assumptions of certain ideas developed in the book. Despite these limitations, the book is a valuable contribution to educational ethics, expanding the discourse beyond justice, moral modeling, and deontology by demonstrating how psychological research can illuminate ethical challenges in teaching

Higher education · Professional development · Professional ethics · Professional studies · Educational Challenges and Innovations · Educational Philosophies and Pedagogies · Ethics in Business and Education

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