Action, Reflection, and Social Justice: Integrating Moral Reasoning into Professional Development (Discourse and Social Processes)

The troubling gap between moral values and professional action poses a serious problem for professional education that is not easily resolved by offering courses on ethics or moral development. This book provides a new framework for professors and practitioners who are seeking deeper integration of moral reasoning into professional education and interventions. From the Back Cover The troubling gap between moral values and professional action poses a serious problem for professional education that is not easily resolved by offering courses on ethics or moral development. This text provides a new framework for profesors and practitioners who are seeking deeper integration of moral reasoning into professional education and interventions. Using action research in leadership classes, along with studies of interventions in schools and colleges, the author tests claims embedded in theories of action science, reflective proactice, adult development, and communicative action, to develop his new framework for professional development and intervention.