Education:Artical Review, Great for Education Class
...mplications of this model for teaching and teacher education”(Birmingham, par. 1). In short, she attempts to do the impossible. Birmingham sets a hard constant value to morality and cultural diversity. For her research Birmingham draws upon the experiences of middle class student teachers who encounter pre-teaching in poor urban schools. She interviewed several pre-service student teachers and used their classroom experience in her findings. She also draws upon the moral theory of J. Dewy and the “virtue-centered ethics”(Birmingham, par.10) of Aristotle to reach her conclusions. She barrows “reflective morality” from Dewey, which argues that, “every action, even a seemingly trivial action, is potentially of moral import because it is connected to other actions” (Dewey, 1932. p.13). Throughout her article Birmingham expresses the need for, “open-mindedness, fairness, moral judgment, and caring”(Birmingham, par.15.) in the classroom. The flaw in Birmingham’s article is not in her data collection methods or the analysis of philosophical conclusions; Furthermore, the flaw in her article does not lye in any political agenda or moral bias. Birmingham’s flaw is in a way more obvious, she assig...