Professional Learning Practice and Ethics (PLPE)

Teachers have to be knowledgeable in their content areas, extremely skilful in a wide range of teaching approaches and ethical in their relations with diverse students. Recognizing the complexity of educators' work, this reasearch group engages in a rigorous exploration of professional learning, practice and ethics in diverse contexts of education and addresses a set of key research questions to build its long-term research program.

• Teacher education and professional learning in local and global contexts
• Preparing future teachers and teacher educators through a range of curriculum and pedagogies
• Professional attributes required by future educators for their active participation in a democratic and socially just project of education
• The nature of professional practice, how it is known, organized, represented and transformed in various institutional and sociocultural contexts of education
• The nature of professional practice in neo-liberal conditions and their affect on the everyday of educators
• Identifying 'ethical' professional practice and how it is practiced across a range of stakeholders
• Educational responsiveness to workplace practices