What ethics?

What would it mean to treat preschools as sites of ethical practice? To privilege the ethical over the technical? To answer these questions we must first answer another question – what do we understand by ethics? It is, as Sevenhuijsen points out, almost ‘impossible to give a single unambiguous definition of ethics’, as this is closely connected to the ‘particular philosophical school of thought in which [ethicists’] work is situated’ (1998: 37). There are, in other words, different ways of understanding and approaching ethics.