ERIC Number: EJ1398287
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 23
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ISSN: ISSN-0737-5328
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Transformative Practice and the Moral Rewards of Teaching
Richard D. Osguthorpe; Bryant Jensen
Teacher Education Quarterly, v50 n3 p7-29 2023
Much of K-12 teaching privileges White, upper-middle-class ways of being, thinking, feeling, and interacting. Integrating arguments from moral philosophy and empirical work on teaching and teacher learning, we (a) conceptualize transformative practice, including its moral rewards; (b) frame teacher dispositional virtues that modify their practice; and (c) identify roles that teacher education and K-12 schools play to support teachers by developing virtue and providing structural conditions for accessing the moral rewards of transformative teaching. We illustrate these points with a scenario of teachers working together to plan, enact, examine, and revise their practice to transform it and conclude with suggestions for teacher education programs and K-12 institutions.
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Teaching (Occupation), Moral Values, Philosophy, Moral Development, Rewards, Teacher Education Programs, School Role
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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