Rethinking Dispositions in Teaching and Teacher Education

Virtue and the Manners of Democracy as a Way of Life

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4306348
AutoresRobert V Bullough (0000-0003-4987-0165, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen74
Número4
Páginas315-326
Fecha de publicación2023-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Teacher Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-4871 • E-ISSN: 1552-7816
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00224871231154900
OpenAlexW4321328142
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas31

As long as there have been teachers, there has been an expectation that they be of good character and model virtue. The author describes developments in the thought about teacher dispositions and identifies specific shortcomings in the effort to define and assess them as part of teacher education program accreditation. Virtue ethics as an alternative conceptual possibility is considered but found wanting. Seeking to identify a moral framework capable of supporting education, including teacher education program development, he suggests focus on the "manners" of democracy that arise from an analysis of democracy as a distinctive way of life, an essential social and civic practice. Five manners are suggested: hospitality, attuned listening, voice, reflectivity, and evidential discernment. Each manner is briefly described and discussed

Accreditation · Active listening · Civic virtue · Democracy · Discernment · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Hospitality · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Values Education · Virtue · Virtue ethics · Education and Critical Thinking Development · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Values and Moral Education