The Disenchanted Classroom

Author / Editor
Patterson, Lee.

Title
The Disenchanted Classroom

Published
Exemplaria 8 (1996): 513-45.

Description
Max Weber's distinction between an "ethics of commitment" and an "ethics of responsibility" can help make the connection between theoretical assumptions and pedagogical practices explicit. An "ethics of commitment" leads to the idea of the teacher as prophet; an "ethics of responsibility" encourages specialization and leads to a historicist approach.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.