Being trustworthy: going beyond evidence to desiring Webster, Robert S 2016, Being trustworthy: going beyond evidence to desiring, Education philosophy and theory, In Press, pp. 1-11, doi: 10.1080/00131857.2016.1150803. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Being trustworthy: going beyond evidence to desiring Author(s) Webster, Robert S orcid.org/0000-0002-5253-4894 Journal name Education philosophy and theory Season In Press Start page 1 End page 11 Total pages 11 Publisher Taylor & Francis Place of publication Abingdon, Eng. Publication date 2016 Keyword(s) trust trustowrthy desires love Dewey Kierkegaard Summary If educators are to educate they must be accorded some level of trust. Anthony Giddens claims that because trust is not easily created, it is now being replaced with ‘confidence’ because this latter disposition is much easier to give and is more convenient. It is argued in this paper that this shift from trust to confidence stifles education because emphasis is placed solely upon qualifications and competence, and is neglectful of disclosing one’s motives and desires—which are considered to be essential elements for relationships and communities which depend upon trust. Therefore, educators ought to seek to become more trustworthy by going beyond evidence-based practices and codes of ethics, towards articulating a developed personal philosophy of education outlining the ultimate end-purposes to which they aspire. Through such a philosophy, educators identify their ultimate desires and commitments and this self-disclosure can make trust-giving more likely. Demonstrated evidence of achievements and qualifications encourage confidence and this has some value. In addition to these artefacts of evidence, it is argued here that educators must also articulate what they actually desire. This can be understood as John Dewey’s virtue of ‘genuine interest’ which he characterises as being wholehearted, persistent and impartial. For educators, this is often represented in our personal philosophy of education and because it is personal, it is also existential in the sense that it pertains to giving sense, meaning and purpose to all of our activities and way of life for which we are individually responsible and passionately committed to as professionals. As a consequence of being existential, our philosophy and our commitment to it has an intellectual and moral aspect and because it reaches to the very depths of our raison d’être, it pertains to our passion as described by Søren Kierkegaard. This paper shall draw upon Dewey’s notion of wholeheartedness and Kierkegaard’s notion of purity of heart, to make the case that if educators embrace these in their practices, we may become more trustworthy. Language eng DOI 10.1080/00131857.2016.1150803 Field of Research 130202 Curriculum and Pedagogy Theory and Development 130399 Specialist Studies in Education not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 930201 Pedagogy HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal ERA Research output type C Journal article Copyright notice ©2016, Taylor & Francis Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30084125 Document type: Journal Article Collection: School of Education Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges   Connect to Elements publication management system Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 09 Jun 2016, 14:34:12 EST Fri, 10 Jun 2016, 05:01:44 EST Wed, 09 Nov 2016, 11:48:59 EST Thu, 01 Dec 2016, 05:05:33 EST Mon, 05 Dec 2016, 08:09:30 EST Thu, 08 Dec 2016, 10:34:24 EST Fri, 09 Dec 2016, 12:48:10 EST Fri, 21 Apr 2017, 13:44:39 EST Mon, 26 Jun 2017, 12:35:55 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 37 Abstract Views, 1 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Thu, 09 Jun 2016, 14:34:12 EST

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