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Friday, June 09, 2006

First, are you our sort of a person?


"And NCATE, realizing that its attempt to use dispositions theory to create an ideologically homogenous generation of public school teachers could badly backfire, retreated," writes Robert KC Johnson in a smart, useful narrative of the rise and fall of the dispositions empire.

At least we can hope it has fallen. Dispositions enthusiasts express what Todd Gitlin calls “the pathos of the academic left,” “the downright peculiarity” of a “meager,” “helpless” band, a remnant “force… of purification” which, having withdrawn from any actual politics, flounces about denouncing traitors.
Posted at: 6/09/2006 08:19:00 AM