In an intriguing and original style, these authors offer a rich resource for understanding the history, process, and value of feminist consciousness-raising for teachereducators and feminist teachers. Critical incidents in today’s classrooms involving values relativism, the rush to judgement, witnessing to vulnerability, cyber-bullying, and countering determinism in teacher education and research are analyzed using key concepts from philosophers and feminist theorists.
Weaving together personal narrative, dramatization, literary allusion, and philosophical reconstruction, the authors examine and question the place of the personal in the teacher’s ethical responsibility for moral deliberation in pluralistic classrooms.
This book is of tremendous value for teacher-educators engaged in helping pre-service teachers develop the critical and sensitive capacities needed to be the voice of authority in a classroom. The ethical questions that are raised have repercussions for teaching professional ethics in other caregiving professions.
Going to the heart of the teacher’s worst fears and assumptions, this unique work offers a new approach to the analysis of case studies in philosophy of education.
Published in English.

Michelle Forrest is Professor of Education at Mount Saint Vincent University, a trained actor, and a classical singer. She teaches and writes about the ethics of teaching, collaborative inquiry, feminist pedagogy, and the value of art and philosophy in challenging bias, certainty, and closed-mindedness. Michelle has served multiple terms on the executives of her faculty union, the Canadian Philosophy of Education Society, and the Canadian Association of Foundations of Education.

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Linda Wheeldon is Lecturer at Acadia University where she teaches foundations, equity practices, drama and performative inquiry to pre-service teachers, and clinical counselling courses to graduate students. Linda, a counselling therapist, has served as the president for the College for Counselling Therapists in Nova Scotia and as a director for the national board of the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association.

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