Ethical teaching
Subtitle: a case for dialogical resistance
By: by C. Robert Foster
Published: 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780494159606
Subjects: Buber, Martin, -- 1878-1965.; Teaching -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Dialogue.
Description: My choice of philosophical framework borrows from Buber's relational ontology. His dialogical core of unconditioned worth acts as fertile soil for justifying ethical resistance. Teachers acting within the Buberian vision of education are therefore called to resist dehumanizing pedagogies and enter into dialogical relations that promote healthy ethical tensions in educational settings.My contribution to the study of ethical pedagogy focuses on dialogical resistance in the classroom. Dialogical resistance must be argued and practised as a necessary dyadic tension between dominance and subservience, bureaucratic demands and subversion and individual conscience and collective pressures. Within the context of an increasingly diverse educational system and a functionally monolithic evaluation system, the ethical teacher will resist dialogically for the sake of ethical space in the classroom. The pressures and contradictions to be resisted are located within the teacher, between the teacher and students, and between the teacher and the education system. Resistance leads to more ethical space as the teacher-student relationship becomes less neutralized, more morally significant as a truly human relationship. I attach high ontological value to each human life, regardless of culture, religion, gender,
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-07, Section: A, page: 2507.

Thesis (Ed.D)--University of Toronto, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 239-248).