Marina Schwimmer

• McGill University

À fin de mieux saisir le potentiel des idées issues du courant poststructuraliste par rapport au projet éducatif humaniste et rationaliste privilégié dans les systèmes d’éducation contemporains, cet article présente un certain nombre de travaux produits dans le champ de la philosophie de l’éducation qui reposent sur les idées de deux penseurs consi...

The paper is a response to the articles published in the current issue analysing Rorty’s philosophy of hope. In these articles, Bianca Thoilliez, Stefano Oliverio and Kai Wortmann highlight the pragmatist characteristics of post-critical pedagogy. Taking a poststructuralist perspective, I propose to examine some limits of the association between Ro...

L’article s’articule autour de la conférence de Jacques Derrida intitulée L’université sans condition dans laquelle il propose de penser l’avenir de l’université en considérant le travail du professeur comme une profession de foi. L’article commence par présenter les caractéristiques de la figure contemporaine de l’enseignant professionnel et propo...

This article considers the value of adopting a code of professional ethics for teachers. After having underlined how a code of ethics stands to benefits a community of educators – namely, by providing a mechanism for regulating autonomy and promoting a shared professional ethic – the article examines the principal arguments against codes of ethics....

In this article, I will discuss the idea of teachers as knowledge translators, not in a pedagogical or didactical sense, but in a “professional” one. A professional practice is supposed to be theoretically informed by academic research. In the name of effectiveness and efficiency, current policies in teaching and higher education repeatedly ask for...

Two studies were conducted to explore codes of ethics as a source of insight into the ethical base of teacher professionalism. Using the 13 codes of ethics overseeing teachers' work in Canada as a sample, Study 1 applied content analysis to assess whether an overlapping consensus on teachers' professional obligations could be observed. Study 2 depl...

This article provides a narrative review of the scholarly writings on professional ethics education for future teachers. Against the background of a widespread belief among scholars working in this area that longstanding and sustained research and reflection on the ethics of teaching have had little impact on the teacher education curriculum, the a...

En s’inspirant des travaux issus de la philosophie de l’éducation et en adoptant une perspective empruntée à la philosophie du langage, cet essai tente de se distancier des conceptions habituellement retenues pour discuter la traduction de la recherche en pratiques en éducation. Après avoir brièvement présenté un modèle de la traduction comme acte...

In this essay, Bruce Maxwell, David Waddington, Kevin McDonough, Andrée‐Anne Cormier, and Marina Schwimmer compare two competing approaches to social integration policy, Multiculturalism and Interculturalism, from the perspective of the issue of the state funding and regulation of conservative religious schools. After identifying the key difference...

Smeyers, P., & Depaepe, M. (Eds). (2008). Educational Research: The Educationalization of Social Problems. Gent, Belgium: Springer.

Policies and practices in education : a problematic coupling. An anglo-american perspective. This article reviews, categorizes and synthesi-zes the litterature on policy implementation in education, on teachers’ relations towards these policies and on the work they do in response to the prescriptions to change their practices the policies involve....