Creating a Professional Community through Means-Ends Connections to Facilitate the Acquisition of Moral Disposition: Developing, Living and Evaluating [Paperback]

This timely book provides a Deweyan approach to the acquisition of dispositions against the NCATE requirement for the development of a conceptual framework that is lived and continuously evaluated. The work is vital to colleges of education that are pursuing educative means toward the end of pedagogical thoughtfulness for teacher education candidates and other school personnel.Erskine S. Dottinis Professor of Educational Foundations and Policy Studies at Florida International University. Dottin holds a Ph.D. in Education (Leadership) from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. He is the author ofBringing Out the Best in Human EffectivenessandDevelopment of a Conceptual Frameworkboth from the University Press of America.

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Preface
Chapter 3 Acknowledgments
Chapter 4Introduction: Conceptual Framework; Structural Elements; Moral coherence
Chapter 5 The Moral Question: How Ought Life Be Lived in Your Unit; Moral Life in the Unit
Chapter 6 Building Moral Community Like-mindedness
Chapter 7 Living the Conceptual Framework
Chapter 8 Evaluating the Conceptual Framework; Judging the Worth of the Conceptual Framework
Chapter 9 Bibliography
Chapter 10 Author Biographical Sketch