Barbara S. Stengel

Responsibility (eBook, PDF)

Philosophy of Education in Practice

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Students, parents, teachers, leaders, and policy-makers generate and take responsibility for their efforts, often without understanding the nature of the responsibility they hold. Barbara S. Stengel argues that every educational interaction is a call to and opportunity for responsibility for all involved. In short, responsibility represents the goal for students, the guiding vision for educators' practice, and a useful design principal for leaders and policy makers.

Using a critical pragmatist framing of the concept of responsibility, Stengel shows how greater attention to responsibility allows for a deeper understanding of diversity and equity as well as individual and common goods. It enables a deeper understanding of the moral dimensions of teaching and learning prospectively in growth rather than retrospectively in blame. The philosophical discussion of responsibility is coupled with discussion of the lived experiences of students, teachers, aides, and administrators and draws evidence from a case study of a middle school turnaround in Nashville, USA. The Bailey Middle School community developed a reading of responsibility that matched educators' intuitions and experiences of their work, while enhancing students' understanding of their place in the world. The book represents a call for educators to be, and become, responsible for their and their students' lives-in-common and the individual well-being of all in the community.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350302594
• Artikelnr.: 69107576

Autorenporträt

Barbara S. Stengel is Professor Emerita in the Practice of Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Vanderbilt University, USA. She is the author of three books including Just Education (1991), Moral Matters (2006) and Toward Anti-Oppressive Teaching (2020). Dr. Stengel is a former President of the Philosophy of Education Society and current President of the John Dewey Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editors Preface Introduction 1. Responsibility as Response-ability
2. Recognizing Response-ability 3. "OK, What Do We Have Control Over?"
Cultivating the Critical in Response-ability 4. "We Can Make Mistakes and
We Can Fix Them": Interpreting-Responding in Community 5. "Everything was
Intentional": Attending to Relation and Responsiveness 6. "Let's Remember
Who We Are": Making and Taking Responsibility 7. Embracing Uncertainty and
Staying Open: Critical Pragmatist Optimism Conclusion References Index