Pedagogical virtues from the situationist insight

Virtuous scaffolding and sensitivity to non-epistemic situational factors to learning

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ID11952216
AuthorsNoel L Clemente (0000-0002-9120-4222, Macquarie University, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume59
Issue2
Pages325-341
Publication date2025-02-07
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Philosophy of Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0309-8249 • E-ISSN: 1467-9752
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/jopedu/qhaf005
OpenAlexW4407247506
LanguageEN
References cited28

This article explores two pedagogical virtues (intellectual virtues of a teacher) that arise from the insight that non-epistemic situational factors can affect students’ epistemic judgements and behaviour. First, a virtuous teacher must be sensitive enough to these factors in order to take advantage of how they boost student learning. However, while cultivating a situationally and epistemically favourable environment for learning sounds sensible, teachers should not spoil their students by making them too dependent on these beneficial external factors. The virtuous teacher must also realize that these are only scaffolds; they do help students initially, but must eventually be removed to promote the students’ intellectual autonomy. This characterizes a second pedagogical virtue: the competence to facilitate students’ growth so that they become more capable in future opportunities for knowledge acquisition

Autonomy · Competence (human resources · Epistemology · Pedagogy · Situational ethics · Situationism · Sociology · Virtue · Virtuous circle and vicious circle · Education and Critical Thinking Development · Educational Strategies and Epistemologies · Psychological and Educational Research Studies · Psychology · Philosophy · Social Psychology

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