Effective or Wise?: Teaching and the Meaning of Professional Dispositions in Education

Effective or Wise?Teaching and the Meaning of Professional Dispositions in Education In our work as educators, we all aspire to be effective.We also aspire to be wise. If teachers are to represent and advocate for education, we must become the stewards of a discourse that nurtures education?s possibilities. This book explores how teacher dispositions are defined, developed, cultivated, and assessed. The authors in the volume consider the various and interconnected ways in which educators? values, beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors are performed and how these performances affect experiences and practices of learning. This text investigates complex questions, such as: How should teachers be? and Who should decide how teachers should be? In different ways, all the chapters in this book invite us into the work of reinvigorating educational discourse. The contributors contradict the idea that wisdom is the province of the lone genius who possesses knowledge that is obscure to the majority. Instead, they ask us all to participate in the necessarily collaborative endeavor of discourse stewardship in ? as grand as it may sound ? the pursuit of wisdom. Additional ISBNs 9781433121302, 9781453913420, 9781454189770Effective or Wise?: Teaching and the Meaning of Professional Dispositions in Education 1st Edition is written by Gorlewski, Julie A. / Gorlewski, David A. / Hopkins, Jed / Porfilio, Brad J. and published by Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers. ISBNs for Effective or Wise? are 9781454189787, 1454189789 and the print ISBNs are 9781433121319, 143312131X. Additional ISBNs include 9781433121302, 9781453913420, 9781454189770.