The Educator's Dual Role: Expressing Ideals While Educating in Nonideal Conditions     

Jennifer M. Morton 《Educational theory》2016,66(3):323-339

In this essay, Jennifer Morton discusses educators as central examples of agents who engage in ideal and nonideal ways of thinking. The educator, as a representative of the political community, is tasked with two aims. The first is nurturing students with the skills and knowledge they need for the world as they will find it. In pursuing this goal, the educator is assuming certain social facts, some of them unjust, that constitute the present nonideal world. The second aim is civic — educating future citizens. Insofar as the educator is involved in pursuing this goal, his or her role is to work at making certain future social facts true, in the hope of making the future slightly more ideal. Morton argues that if we think of these two aims instrumentally, they can come into conflict. She does not suggest a resolution to this conflict, but rather develops an alternative expressive account of the civic role of the educator. Ideal thinking by educators, Morton maintains, should be thought of as constituting an expression of respect toward their fellow citizens here and now. Ultimately, she argues that this expressive component of the educator's job is crucial to the educator's role in the political community.  相似文献   

Richard Phillips Feynman     

N. Mukunda 《Resonance》2011,16(9):796-797

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Editorial     

Philip Hills 《International Journal of Information Management》2011,31(1):1-2

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A response to Gustavsson,Kittelsaa & Tøssebro     

Deborah J. Gallagher 《欧洲特需教育杂志》2017,32(4):487-488

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Introduction to the Issue     

Jason G. Irizarry  Catherine Tebaldi 《Equity & Excellence in Education》2015,48(4):509-510

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Part 1. If We Frame It,They Will Respond: Undergraduate Student Responses to the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education     

Rachel E. Scott 《The Reference Librarian》2017,58(1):1-18

There remains significant confusion surrounding the purpose, audience, and proposed application of the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. This exploratory study addresses the question of whether undergraduate students can understand the language and concepts in this document. By presenting student responses to pretest questions recorded at the beginning of a semester-long research methods course, this article shows that students can, even on first impression, begin to make sense of the complexity and richness found in the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education.  相似文献   

Editorial          下载免费PDF全文

Philip Garner 《Support for Learning》2017,32(2):108-109

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On the Decline and Fall of the Liberal Arts     

C. Bradley Thompson 《Academic Questions》2015,28(4):417-427

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Using pig die and simulation to explore probability and expected values     

Laura A. Hildreth  Jennifer L. Green 《Teaching Statistics》2016,38(2):67-71

We present a variant of the Game of Pig to introduce the concepts of probability, simulation and expected value.  相似文献   

From the editor: Perspectives     

Jean M. Henscheid 《About Campus》2011,15(6):1-1

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