Effective or Wise?: Teaching and the Meaning of Professional Dispositions in Education (Counterpoints #447) (Paperback)

Effective or Wise?: Teaching and the Meaning of Professional Dispositions in Education (Counterpoints #447) By Shirley R. Steinberg (Editor), Julie A. Gorlewski (Editor), David A. Gorlewski (Editor) Cover Image
By Shirley R. Steinberg (Editor), Julie A. Gorlewski (Editor), David A. Gorlewski (Editor)
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This is book number 447 in the Counterpoints series.

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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.

About the Author

Julie A. Gorlewski (PhD, the State University of New York at Buffalo) is Assistant Professor of Secondary Education at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Her books include Power, Resistance, and Literacy: Writing for Social Justice and, with David A. Gorlewski, Making it Real: Case Stories for Secondary Teachers. She is coeditor of English Journal. David A. Gorlewski (EdD, the State University of New York at Buffalo) is Assistant Professor of Educational Administration at the State University of New York at New Paltz. David is coeditor of English Journal and has published numerous articles and chapters on school reform and school leadership. Jed Hopkins (PhD, the University of Minnesota) is Associate Professor of Education at Edgewood College in Madison, WI. His teaching and research interests straddle literacy, teacher education, drama-in-education, and philosophy of education. Brad J. Porfilio (PhD, the State University of New York at Buffalo) is an associate professor in the Educational Leadership for Teaching and Learning Doctoral Program at Lewis University. His research interests and expertise include: urban education, gender and technology, cultural studies, neoliberalism and schooling, and transformative education.


Product Details
ISBN: 9781433121302
ISBN-10: 1433121301
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Publication Date: August 29th, 2014
Pages: 277
Language: English
Series: Counterpoints
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