ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes that power and control of education and schooling need to be relocated from the minority to the majority of learners of all ages and socio-cultural backgrounds, such that personal interest and meaning can establish and guide all investigations, generating new reflections, problems and possibilities in an open-ended manner. For educators, teachers and parents, a judgement must be made about democracy as a virtue and that personal thinking and learning are the ultimate democratic acts, depending on the participant alone acting independently. All people, including educators, teachers and parents, make ethical judgements every day about themselves in relation to children and young people in their care. If ethics is concerned with conduct that seeks to distinguish right and wrong behaviour, then it is essentially a field of human action taken with due regard to others. Considering practice analysis as assessment constitutes a conceptual shift in thinking from 'assessment of students' to 'monitoring of practice.'.
