Vygotsky and education: Instructional implications and applications of sociohistorical psychology

https://education.biu.ac.il/files/education/shared/TAT_16_DEC_2010.pdf

Teachers’ critical incidents: Ethical dilemmas in teaching practice

Taken separately, the concepts of ethics and teaching have provided a source of ancient and modern philosophizing as well as being a catalyst for historical and contemporary discussion and debate a...

The Ethics of Teaching as a Moral Profession

John Dewey and American Democracy

The moral is in the practice

Moral perception, the capacity to comprehend the unique needs and aspirations of individual persons and the best possibilities of equally unique social contexts, is important to teachers who rely on sympathetic understanding to facilitate their classroom practice. Yet moral perception and teachers’ “intuitions” have been denigrated and ignored by educational theorists and researchers who emphasize rational judgment and rule-governed principles. In our article we develop the Aristotelian theory of practical reasoning and its defense of moral perception as logically necessary to any goo d moral practice. We bolster our defense by calling on the work of John Dewey. We explicate the neo-Aristotelian theory of practical teaching wisdom in terms of the assessments of one fourth grader, Tony Mitchell. We argue that assessing students without providing a role for moral perception is a tragic mistake.

Pamela J. Simpson

Papers

Teaching and Moral Perception.