The role of directive moral teaching: Reply to Michael Hand’s ‘Moral education in the community of inquiry’

Abstract

In this commentary on Michael Hand’s paper ’Moral education in the community of inquiry’, I argue that Hand is right to call for the Community of Inquiry method to include directive moral teaching. I do so in the light of having worked with this broader conception, or something very like it, in the writing of the NSW Primary Ethics Curriculum. Using examples from this curriculum, I aim to show the necessity of a broader Col, and to argue for a process that involves even more direction.

Keywords

• classroom examples, community of inquiry, directive teaching