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Meaning-Making, Negotiation, And Change In School Accountability, Or What Sociology Can Offer Policy Studies, Jose Eos R. Trinidad
Meaning-Making, Negotiation, And Change In School Accountability, Or What Sociology Can Offer Policy Studies, Jose Eos R. Trinidad
Interdisciplinary Studies Faculty Publications
In school systems around the world, countless reform strategies have focused on school and teacher accountability—the process of evaluating schools’ performance on the basis of student measures. Policy and education research has been dominated by debates on its effectiveness, where advocates highlight the positive effects on achievement while critics emphasize the negative consequences on pressure, morale, and autonomy. Yet the question is not so much whether to have accountability, but what form it should take. To answer this, sociologists contribute through their study of accountability’s organizational and ecological dynamics—key facets that are sidelined when researchers only focus on quantitative program …
Pedagogical Virtues: An Account Of The Intellectual Virtues Of A Teacher, Noel L. Clemente
Pedagogical Virtues: An Account Of The Intellectual Virtues Of A Teacher, Noel L. Clemente
Philosophy Department Faculty Publications
The overlap between virtue epistemology and the philosophy of education has been dominated by discussions of the epistemic qualities of good learners, that is, the intellectual virtues that must be nurtured in students. Not much has been said about the epistemic qualities of good teachers expressed in virtue-theoretic terms. This paper offers a preliminary account of such qualities, which are designated as pedagogical virtues. I use Battaly's pluralist conception of intellectual virtue as a starting point, then describe a pedagogical virtue as an intellectual virtue with an other-regarding success or motivational component. I end with an elucidation of the pedagogical …