Dewey's conception of vocation: existential, aesthetic, and educational implications for teachers.

Autor/in	Higgins, Christopher
Titel	Dewey's conception of vocation: existential, aesthetic, and educational implications for teachers.
Quelle	In: Journal of curriculum studies, 37 (2005) 4, S. 441-464Infoseite zur Zeitschrift Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch; englische Zusammenfassung
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0272
Schlagwörter	Selbstbild; Zufriedenheit; Lehrberuf; Lehrerrolle; Lebensqualität; Arbeitsbedingungen; Berufsethos; Dewey, John
Abstract	I offer a close reconstruction of John Dewey's account of vocation in "Democracy and Education", bringing out the existential and aesthetic dimensions of Dewey's idea that vocations constitute perceptual environments for their practitioners. Although Dewey offers this idea to teachers only as an insight about student development, I contend that its most powerful educational implication concerns the growth of teachers. Picking up where Dewey left off, I investigate to what extent teaching constitutes an educative environment for teachers. I conclude that, while the environment of teaching is an exceedingly rich one, the basic working conditions of teachers and the ethos of education often frustrate their attempts to interact with this environment. I conclude with a critique of some of the forces that narrow the range of what teachers notice, feel, and learn in the course of their work. (Zusammenfassung vom Verlag übernommen).
Erfasst von	IPN - Leibniz-Institut für die Pädagogik der Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik an der Universität Kiel
Update	2006/1