Dilemmas from the School: Systems, Power, and the Ethical Life of the Teacher

Harvard HGSE

You have found your footing in the classroom. You know how you stand, how you move, how you sound. Now the harder question: what is the system you are standing in, and what are you going to do about it? This course asks teacher candidates to turn their attention outward to the institutions, structures, and power dynamics that shape what teaching is and what it can be. Through philosophical anchor texts, case studies, role analysis, and dilemmatic protocols, students develop the diagnostic…