I Was Becoming Increasingly Uneasy About the Profession and What Was Being Asked of Me”
Preserving Integrity in Teaching
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12010277 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Doris A Santoro (Bowdoin College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 563-587 |
| Publication date | 2013-11-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Curriculum Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0362-6784 • E-ISSN: 1467-873X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/curi.12027 |
| OpenAlex | W1899857137 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 22 |
This article offers a model of the relationship between three dimensions of integrity in teaching: personal integrity, professional integrity, and the integrity of teaching and illustrates the model through interview excerpts from 13 experienced former teachers. I argue that experienced teachers' decisions to leave work they love can be understood not only as attempts to preserve their personal integrity, but also to preserve the integrity of teaching by withdrawing their corroded professional integrity. Only by looking at all three dimensions of integrity can the actions of teaching's conscientious objectors be viewed as moral commentary on a moral enterprise rather than the private and personal laments of disgruntled individuals. When the role of teacher serves as a significant source of moral identity, protecting the integrity of teaching is deeply connected to protecting one's personal integrity. Diminishment in what counts as teaching results in a diminishment of the self. Rather than viewing teachers who leave for matters of conscience as lacking sufficient commitment or ceasing to care about their work, this analysis views their choices as reflecting deep investment in preserving the practice of teaching
Academic integrity · Aesthetics · Bodily integrity · Conscience · Engineering ethics · Identity (music · Pedagogy · Personal Integrity · Political science · Professional responsibility · Public relations · Sociology · Work (physics · Communication in Education and Healthcare · Education and Critical Thinking Development · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Workplace Violence and Bullying
The Emotional Toll of Obligation and Teachers’ Disengagement from the Profession
Beginning Teachers Navigating Identity Development Transitions
A devil’s bargain
La escuela
Steering the ‘client’-oriented schooling ship
Regress instead of progress
Teachers’ Principled Resistance to Curricular Control
Educational Injustice in a High-Stakes Testing Context
Critical Qualitative Inquiry
An Appetite for Transcendence
Instructional Expertise and Micropolitics
Good teachers and counter conduct
Bilingual teachers’ improvisations as agentive policy work in a constrained policy context
Ethical dilemmas and well-being in teachers’ work
The power of open dialogue”
A profession in crisis? Teachers' responses to England's high-stakes accountability reforms in secondary education
Quitting with a crowd
Moral injury among Child Protection Professionals
Philosophizing About Teacher Dissatisfaction
Cassandra in the Classroom
The Logics of Teaching
The Courage to Teach
On Making Determinations of Quality in Teaching
Standing for Something
Feminists Rethink the Self
Nothing Less than Excellence
Where are the children?” Personal integrity and reflective teaching portfolios
The Ethics of Teaching as a Moral Profession
Teaching and Learning as a Way of Life
The Good High School
Integrity in Teaching
Navigating Contradictory Communities of Practice in Learning to Teach for Social Justice
Good Teaching in Difficult Times
From Ideal to Practice and Back Again
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,91 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |