Introduction to Part III

Summary

The third part of the book is dedicated to teaching and learning practices that can illustrate how ethical education may be possible in public education, but also have a profound impact on students’ relational enrichment, holistic development and well-being.

For ethical education practices to be rooted in school communities, the authors first highlighted the structural barriers to overcome. They then discussed the necessary ethics-oriented principles to underpin the institutional processes and practices. The main thrust of these chapters is to demonstrate that by focusing primarily on human relationships, ethical education can truly inspire children and young people to become more open, respectful and accepting in their attitudes and relationships with others. In turn, through such processes, students’ self-awareness is equally developing, which is located within the community, or as part of the ‘we’.