@article{education20219107,
author={{Ssempala, Cornelius and Ssenkusu, Peter Mpiso and Mitana, John Mary Vianney},
title={Immanent-Transcendence: Towards a More Ethically-Oriented CPD in the Wake of Uganda¡¯s National Teachers Policy (2019)},
journal={American Journal of Educational Research},
volume={9},
number={10},
pages={647--653},
year={2021},
url={http://pubs.sciepub.com/education/9/10/7},
issn={2327-6150},
abstract={While efforts to regularize CPD and comply with global standards promise a more competent teacher workforce in pre-primary, primary and secondary schools, the question of a more enchanted and value-oriented CPD embedded in local cultural-linguistic life worlds remains hanging. Carefully going through the traditional philosophical terrain, since Hume and Kant, up till Heidegger, Foucault and the Neo-pragmatists, and Virtue Ethicists, the purpose of this paper is to provide a philosophical background against which Uganda¡¯s National Teachers Policy could be conceived as more ethically-motivated. We used content analysis to examine the National Teacher Policy document alongside other local and international literature about teachers¡¯ continuous professional development. It concludes by showing how a Levinasian perspective, though not widely known in educational circles, explains how a personally engaging and vocational professionalism could re-enchant the Ugandan teacher¡¯s work and life.},
doi={10.12691/education-9-10-7}
publisher={Science and Education Publishing}
}