Situationist Threats in the Classroom: Prospects for Fostering Moral Agency

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Abstract

Situationist threats in the classroom can hinder teachers’ fulfillment of their moral responsibility according to their best judgment. Disempowerment, fatigue, and politics are kinds of these challenges confronting practitioners. This paper theorizes these ethical considerations in the context of the challenges that culture wars have posed for
teachers and maintains that they are situationist threats to teachers’ moral reasoning. It turns out that reasons assessment offers a plausible formulation of moral agency in the classroom to circumvent superflous barriers to one's responsiveness to reasons.

Author

• Sheron A. Fraser-Burgess, Ball State University