The Moral Core of Teaching

Abstract

Kirsi Tirri 1 and Elizabeth Campbell 2 and Liam Gearon 3 and Terence J. Lovat 4 1, Department of Teacher Education, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland 2, Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 1V6, Canada 3, Department of Education, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6PY, UK 4, Faculty of Education and Arts, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia Received 18 July 2012; Accepted 18 July 2012 This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Another paper continues the discussion on religious differences and presents a unique study of 16 Muslim youngsters' ideas on how to deal with religious and cultural differences in the context of Finnish society. [...]a paper from Finland presents elementary school children's perceptions of moral behavior, with a focus on bullying and in the imaginary context of them possessing the infinite powers of superhero defenders.