Demoralization

Demoralisation, Best Practices, and the Moral Centre of Teaching

Posted on 23 September 2019 by Dr Kevin Smith

What’s lost when teaching is stripped of its moral core? Building on Doris Santoro’s concept of demoralisation, this post explores how the language of “best practices” can erode teachers’ ethical agency. It asks what it would take to re-centre education on the moral purposes that give teaching its soul.