The Ethics of Teaching: A Casebook

✍ Scribed by Patricia Keith-Spiegel, Jr. Whitley Bernard E., Deborah Ware Balogh, David V. Perkins, Arno F. Wittig

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 289
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Ethics of Teaching provides a frank discussion of the most frequently encountered ethical dilemmas that can arise in educational settings, as well as tips on how to avoid these predicaments and how to deal with them when they do occur. The goal is to stimulate discussion and raise faculties' consciousness about ethical issues. Ethical dilemmas are presented as short, engaging case scenarios, most of which are based on actual situations, so as to furnish more realistic and interesting stimuli for individual reflection and group discussion. These scenarios offer the opportunity to consider the subtle complexities inherent in the social and psychological contexts in which educator-student interactions occur and the effects of those complexities on ethical decision making. Each case is followed by a detailed analysis and advice. The book's 195 cases are grouped into 22 chapters representing topics, such as the controversial classroom presentations and assignments, debatable testing and grading practices, problematic student-faculty interactions, dual-role relationships with students, collegial conflicts, managing very difficult students, and confidentiality dilemmas. The Ethics of Teaching: A Casebook, Second Edition: focuses on commonly encountered ethical ''gray areas'' that have no clear solution; includes questions to stimulate discussion of related ethical issues; concludes with a chapter on prevention, peer mentoring, and intervention; and serves as excellent ''assigned reading'' to stimulate group discussion in teaching workshops and faculty development programs. The first edition of this book evolved by collecting a variety of teaching situations that commonly occur in college and university settings. The authors then created responses to the situations and circulated both the cases and the responses to reviewers from a number of departments across the country. As a result, the vast majority of the cases are ''discipline free.'' The second edition features many new cases to reflect recent trends and events related to academic ethics. Questions were added to stimulate discussion and to further elaborate the issues. The Ethics of Teaching: A Casebook is ideal for college and university faculty, graduate assistants, and administrators involved in workshops, graduate teaching assistant courses, and faculty development and new faculty orientation programs. As a result of the book's cross-disciplinary development, it will be beneficial to faculty from a broad spectrum of disciplines.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 12
Introduction......Page 16
I The Classroom Ambiance......Page 23
1 Instructors’ Classroom Policies......Page 25
2 Student Deportment in the Classroom......Page 36
II The Classroom Learning Experience......Page 49
3 Instructors’ Presentation Style and Content......Page 51
4 Required In-Class Learning Activities......Page 72
III Assessment of Students......Page 81
5 Testing and Other Academic Evaluations......Page 83
6 Grading Methods......Page 99
7 Feedback to Students......Page 115
8 Writing Reference Letters for Students......Page 120
9 Biased Treatment of Students......Page 131
10 Academic Dishonesty......Page 142
IV Outside the Classroom......Page 153
11 Availability to Students......Page 155
12 Student-Faculty Interactions......Page 161
V Relationships in Academia......Page 167
13 Multiple Role Relations and Conflicts of Interest......Page 169
14 Interprofessional Relations......Page 182
15 Exploitation of Students......Page 194
16 Discrimination......Page 203
17 Manipulative Students and Instructors......Page 210
18 Supervising, Advising, and Collaboration With Students......Page 218
VI Responsibilities to Students and Colleagues......Page 233
19 Instructor Competency......Page 235
20 Confidentiality Issues......Page 249
21 Political and Public Statements......Page 260
22 Responsibilities to the Institution......Page 271
Afterword: Prevention and Peer Intervention......Page 278
References......Page 283
Subject Index......Page 285