Creating a Professional Community through Means-Ends Connections to Facilitate the Acquisition of Moral Disposition: Developing, Living and Evaluating a Conceptual Framework in Teacher Education

by Erskine S. Dottin

Overview

This timely book provides a Deweyan approach to the acquisition of dispositions against the NCATE requirement for the development of a conceptual framework that is lived and continuously evaluated. The work is vital to colleges of education that are pursuing educative means toward the end of pedagogical thoughtfulness for teacher education candidates and other school personnel.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761831631
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/04/2005
Pages:	130
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Erskine S. Dottin is Professor of Educational Foundations and Policy Studies at Florida International University. Dottin holds a Ph.D. in Education (Leadership) from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. He is the author of Bringing Out the Best in Human Effectiveness and Development of a Conceptual Framework both from the University Press of America.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Preface
Chapter 3 Acknowledgments
Chapter 4 Introduction: Conceptual Framework; Structural Elements; Moral coherence
Chapter 5 The Moral Question: How Ought Life Be Lived in Your Unit; Moral Life in the Unit
Chapter 6 Building Moral Community Like-mindedness
Chapter 7 Living the Conceptual Framework
Chapter 8 Evaluating the Conceptual Framework; Judging the Worth of the Conceptual Framework
Chapter 9 Bibliography
Chapter 10 Author Biographical Sketch