Imagining Ourselves in the Future: Toward an Existential Ethics for Teachers in the Accountability Era

Abstract

think education is about people and it's kind of messy and not, maybe, quite as standardizable as someone might think. I am fundamentally not interested in enacting other people's plans. There's no creativity in that, there is no opportunity to use what I know in that situation, and also I think it's a slap in the face to me as a professional." Stephanie found that it was impossible to exercise her moral agency and teach "right" within policy mandates that dismissed her pedagogical knowledge, constrained her pedagogical judgment, and so tightly circumscribed her pedagogical authority. 1