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Rethinking Dispositions in Teaching and Teacher Education

Virtue and the Manners of Democracy as a Way of Life

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ID4306348
AuthorsRobert V Bullough (0000-0003-4987-0165, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume74
Issue4
Pages315-326
Publication date2023-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Teacher Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-4871 • E-ISSN: 1552-7816
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00224871231154900
OpenAlexW4321328142
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited31

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

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Unique citing works3
Citations per year1
Citation span2023 - 2025 (3)
Citation velocityrecent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 3
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