Unearthing the Seeds of Oppression and Injustice within Education: Using Intuition, Care, and Virtue to Guide the Educative Process and Cultivate Morality.

• Main Author: Worsham, Lucas
• Format: Others
• Published: UNF Digital Commons 2016
• Subjects: Thesis; University of North Florida; UNF; Dissertations; Academic > UNF > Master of Arts in Practical Philosophy and Applied Ethics; Academic > UNF > Philosophy; Philosophy; Practical Philosophy; Philosophy of Education; Education; Ethics; Morality; Virtue Ethics; Intuitionism; Care; Curriculum and Instruction; Curriculum and Social Inquiry; Educational Methods; Liberal Studies; Other Teacher Education and Professional Development; Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education; Teacher Education and Professional Development
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/645; https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1680&context=etd

The emphasis of the inquiry is on the domain of education and the relationship present between the teacher and student more specifically. Essentially, the first part of the thesis outlines how the larger social-political system impacts the domain of public education, with the predominant issues of adversity becoming manifest at the level of the relationship that exists between teacher and student. The second part of the work utilizes the problems discovered and their impact on human experience to propose a virtue/care based method for approaching the relationship with the student in a way that both aligns more closely with the movement of experience, while also functioning to assist the student in shaping their own moral character. Essentially, the method being proposed is something that is meant to assist the teacher in her attempts to communicate with the student in a more personal sort of way, thus allowing for a higher degree of understanding of the unique personality of each student, with this understanding leading the teacher to form a more flexible approach that takes into account the various personalities of the students. In so doing the teacher is working to bring the experience of the student into the educative process, which should thereby increase student performance through their feeling more involved in the education being received.