Moral+Research

=Readings= Moral imagination is our capacity to see and to realize in some actual or contemplated experience possibilities for enhancing the quality of experience, both for ourselves and for the communities of which weare a part, both for the present and for future generations, both for our existing practices and institutions as well as for those we can imagine as potentially realizable. (1993, p. 209) || Quotes:"To more effectively address issues of this kind, dilemmas arising because teaching inevitably involves the exercise of authority and power, the authors suggest “continual reflection” on how power and authority operate in the classroom. How they would do this is uncertain." Conflicts among values, norms, and beliefs, pervade teaching, some originating in the way in which teaching is structured and in how authority is understood and enacted and in the sometimes competing interests of teachers, students, and their parents. Teachers understand and respond to these conflicts differently. Based upon a wide range of life experience, patterns are apparent in how teachers respond to moral dilemmas, indicating differences in levels of moral and ethical sensitivity and understanding. Some respond by prioritizing ego needs, others give priority to social and institutional norms thereby shoring up established expectations, and yet still others hold a more flexible and sensitive view attentive to a wide range of moral claims. While most of the studies focused on how individual teachers understand and confront moral dilemmas, there is awareness of the importance of attending to how the informal or hidden curriculum of a school, not just a classroom, shapes moral understanding and of the need to build and sustain schools as moral spheres || closer to rather than farther from the prospect of a flourishing life. This suggests that the practice is something other than merely a means of inculcating or passing on particular beliefs, values, and customs, however these are understood. Teaching constitutes an end in its own right, one infused with intellectual and moral promise. ||
 * **Article**s || **Summary** ||
 * [|Ethical and moral matters in teaching and teachers education doc.pdf]
 * This article is a review of 22 articles related to moral in teaching.**
 * [|Moral aspects of teaching.pdf] ||  ||
 * [|Moral Teachers Moral Students.pdf] ||  ||
 * [|Raising the bar Ethics ed for teachers.pdf] ||  ||
 * [|Teachers as role model Teaching character and moral.pdf] ||  ||
 * [|Power and morality in classroom.pdf] ||  ||
 * [|Teachers moral Mistakes.pdf] ||  ||
 * [|The Moral is in the practice.pdf] || Teaching embodies the human endeavor of moving human beings closer to the good, or, posed di¤erently,
 * [|Values Training program for teachers] ||  ||