Sheron Fraser-Burgess is Professor of Social Foundations of Education/Multicultural Education at Ball State University, USA. Her research focuses on the political implications of social identity and positionality for education in democracy. This inquiry clusters around moral, political, and epistemological questions as they pertain to Black consciousness. Jessica Heybach is Associate Professor and Program Director of Graduate Studies in Educational Leadership at Florida International University, USA. She is interested in the philosophical study of power, justice, equity, and gender in education and the ethics of democratic schooling in a pluralistic world. She is currently the editor of Education & Culture of The John Dewey Society and The Cultural and Social Foundations of Education for The Palgrave Pivot. Dini Metro-Roland is Professor of Educational Foundations at Western Michigan University, USA and Director of Humanities for Everybody, a program that provides free humanities courses to members of the Kalamazoo community. His scholarly interests include the themes of multicultural education, philosophical hermeneutics, and the moral and pedagogical implications of online instruction.

• Part I. Traditions in Ethics and Education: 1. Ancient Chinese ethics and education Charlene Tan; 2. Ancient Greek and Roman ethics and education Kirsten Welch; 3. Ubuntu ethics and education in Southern Africa Agrippa Chingombe and Thenjiwe Major; 4. Ethical & environmental knowledge and education: indigenous cultures from Latin America Angelica Serna Jeri; 5. Ethics, education, and the inheritance of Abraham: an essay in the pedagogy of difference Hanan Alexander; 6. Prioritizing outcomes: utilitarian ethics and education Tal Gilead; 7. Freedom and the ethics of educational authority Chris Martin; 8. Moral education in the virtues Michael Pritchard and Elaine E. Englehardt; 9. The ethics of bildung and liberal education Seamus Mulryan; 10. American pragmatism and democratic ethics, and education Leonard Waks, Chris Voparil, and Justina Torrance; 11. Radical ethics: Marxism and Habermasian critical theory Katie Haus and Barbara Dennis; 12. The ethics of phenomenology and hermeneutics in education Clarence Joldersma; 13. Feminist ethics and the contradictions of gender Cris Mayo; 14 Postmodern-Poststructuralist ethics and education Marianna Papastephanou; Part II. Ethics and Education in Practice: Perennial Dilemmas: 15. Why educate? Competing ethical frameworks in the practice of education Liz Jackson; 16. The displacement of ethics in education through educational standardization Austin Pickup; 17. School health policies and practices: ethical entanglements and a call for criticality Carolyn Pluim and Michael Gard; 18. Value creation and happiness in education: Considerations for a post-truth world Jason Goulah; 19. Childhood and the sovereignty of good Megan Laverty; 20. School discipline and the ethics of managing behavior Bryan Warnick; 21. Educating all children: The legacy of race in education Beththena Johnson and Winston Thompson; 22. Decolonizing curriculum: indigenization and critical settler consciousness Stephany Runninghawk Johnson and Keola Birano; 23. The political necessity and perilous ambiguity of 'academic freedom' John E. Petrovic and Shelby J. Morris; 24. Teacher activism and ethical speech: strikes, labor actions, and ethical responsibility Pam Konkol and Isable Nunez; 25. The spectre of agreement: a contractarian analysis of market ethics in education Kenneth Driggers and Deron Boyles; 26. Philosophical reflections on ethics of teaching and teacher education Janet Orchard; 27. The ethical dimension of educating educators: cruel optimism, professional development, and the need for new ethical attachments Jessica Heybach and Johnny Lupinacci; Part III. Emerging Ethical Pathways and Frameworks: 28. Defining moral responsibility for school leaders in times of democratic crisis Kathleen Knight Abowitz; 29. Convivialism, interdependence, and education: new conceptions of human and planetary flourishing Claudia Ruitenberg; 30. New existentialism Myron Jackson; 31. Antiracist moral and civic education Lawrence Blum; 32. A decolonial feminist perspective: saving ethics of care from white saviorism YiBing Quek; 33. Ethics and mindful leadership in education Charlene Tan; 34. Ethics as a field discipline in the classroom: an homage to Greta Thunberg Charles Verharen; 35. Centering an environmental ethic in climate crisis Charlie Kurth and Panu Pihkala; 36. Ethical inquiry in educational research Aaron Kuntz; 37. Education and the technological horizon Paul Farber; 38. 'There should be republican virtues here': Teaching in credal deep pluralism Sheron Fraser-Burgess and Chris Higgins; 39. A pragmatic approach to ethics in education Ben Paxton; 40. Spectatorship, black bodies, and urban education: womanist excavations of binding inner visions David Humphrey, Jr. and Sheron Fraser-Burgess.