1st Edition
Knowledge and Virtue in Teaching and Learning The Primacy of Dispositions
Preface
Introduction
I. Knowledge, Morality and Authority in Teaching
1. The Epistemological Presence in Teaching and Learning
2. The Individual as Seeker after Knowledge
3. The Moral and Epistemological Authority of the Teacher
II. Virtue and Public Knowledge
4. Truth and Truthfulness
5. Belief and Open-Mindedness
6. Evidence, Impartiality and Judgment
III. Virtue and Personal Knowledge
7. Experience and Integrity: The Historical Individual
8. Commitment, Courage and Will: The Belief-Holding Individual
9. Identity and Knowing One’s Self: The Self-Conscious Individual
IV. The Virtues of the Teacher
10. The Primacy of Dispositions as Virtues
11. Character, Intellect and Care
12. The Epistemological Presence and the Assessment of Teacher Quality
Appendices
Procedures and Protocols
Further Reading
References
Index
Biography
Hugh Sockett is Professor of Education, Department of Public and International Affairs, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, George Mason University.
"While space precludes detailed rehearsal of the rich and wide-ranging content of this work, the various virtues constitutive of [an ‘epistemological presence’] are examined in the context of a philosophically capable review of recent and educationally relevant epistemological work from which this work also seeks to draw out significant implications for teaching and teacher education." —David Carr, Cambridge Journal of Education
