Lecture 5
Moral authorship

Moral Authorship: Thinking and speaking about the moral side of your work

                                                                                   

This lecture is about the development of the teacher's mind power.
As a teacher, you make endless choices every day to make your work go well, but is your work also good work?

Good work is more than doing your job well!

 

What works and what is good is often discovered through trial and error.

You often learn the moral side of your work 'through trial and error'.

 

Finding the right approach to work is a multifaceted process. Everything has been explained, demonstrated and practised in the training and if you then think 'I can do that too!', the reality is just a bit more complicated.
You discover that all kinds of interests are intertwined and intertwined and that it is difficult to get a grip on underlying choices. Talking about it is hampered by the absence of a common language for it.

Starting teachers, but also experienced teachers wriggle in all sorts of bends to create beautiful education, without having to express their interests, values, norms and their professional involvement. That seems comfortable, but we think that for many teachers this is at the expense of their resilience.

 

Quote from a director:

“My school is located in a Vogelaar neighbourhood. Every morning my - mostly female part-time - teachers come to school on their bicycles from another neighbourhood, do their thing - teach language, math, etc. - and cycle back to their own lives after school. There is involvement, but mainly and only in working in class with the students. The values and norms of the teachers are taken for granted to be better than those of the children and their parents. Thinking and speaking  about this is not part of their job, they think.”

 

Around the moral learning power of teachers and leaders, we introduce the concept of Moral Authorship, clarifying moral behaviour as a continuous process of writing, rewriting and reciting.

In the lecture, 6 mutually influencing processes of moral authorship are highlighted as a starting point for thinking about the origin of your own moral choices in your work. The concept of Moral Authorship can help you to strengthen your resilience.

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duration: 45, 60 or 75 minutes

costs: € 275 plus travel expenses