Teaching with Integrity : The Ethics of Higher Education Practice

This is a book about the ethics of teaching in a higher education context. While there have been many titles dedicated to the broader social ethical topics of widening participation and promoting equal opportunities, this title concentrates specifically on the lecturerbs professional responsibilities.It covers the real-life, messy, everyday moral dilemmas that confront university teachers when dealing with students and colleagues -- whether they arise when facilitating discussion in a classroom, deciding whether it is fair to extend a deadline, investigating suspected plagiarism or dealing with complaints.Bruce Macfarlane analyses the pros and cons of prescriptive professional codes of practice employed by many universities and proposes the active development of professional virtues over bureaucratic recommendations.The material is presented in a scholarly, yet accessible style. Case examples are used throughout to encourage a practical, reflective approach.bTeaching with Integrityb seeks to bridge the pedagogic gap currently separating the debate about teachin

Bruce Macfarlane is Reader in Higher Education at City University, London.