ABSTRACT
First principles of good practice were summarised (Chapter 2) as the working out from educational ideals of how to deploy skills and techniques, choose content, modes of assessment and so on. At a minimum, teachers try systematically to fulfil their own views on what it is to be an educated citizen in a good society. Their individual and/or shared ‘visions’ inspires their professional roles. And the fact that there are competing ways of fulfilling or characterising educational ideals (e.g. of how to teach effective learners to be effective citizens) means that many considerations will present themselves, from time to time, dedicated to confirming a position taken by teachers or changing it. These will be practical, political, ethical and academic.
