Teaching as a Way of Good Life Aristotle's Ethics and Teacher Education

In this paper I attempt to explore the view that it may be necessary for teachers CO be intellectually and morally virtuous for themselves and for others' flourishing. As many researchers do, Donaldson observes that 'evidence suggests, perhaps unsurprisingly, that the foundations of successful education lie in the quality of teachers and their leadership. High quality people achieve high quality outcomes for children?' Besides, a justification for teaching someone is needed and if that is toward a vision of the good life, then a teacher may have to be able to experience that through the cultivation of virtues and this has implications for teacher education. I attempt CO explore my questions partly by looking at Scottish teacher education and Aristotle's ethical theory as presented in the Nicomacbean Ethics. Due to the limited space, I only look very briefly at some aspects of the Nicomachean Ethics concerning praxis, endoxon and meson in relation CO Scottish teacher education. My intension is CO develop the concepts in depth in future research. This is a philosophical investigation in teacher education. Therefore, I mainly use, as Hansen suggests, the methods of conceptual analysis, comparison, contrast, analogy and exegesis of texts.(2)