Example 2 from research - Mevorach and Ezer (2010)

Mevorach and Ezer (2010) carried out a study of TEds’ perceptions of Teacher Education practices. This included eight different teacher education colleges in Israel, and an analysis of 75 questionnaires. A set of four models was constructed from literature, one of which was the ‘moral agent professional model’. This involved:

• nurturing a virtuous person involved in the community;
• contributing to the community;
• increasing social involvement in the educational field;
• being able to establish a good relationship with the field and the school;
• becoming familiar with the role of the teacher in the community (ibid: 437)

Teacher educators surveyed did not consider they had arrived at this model, but did indicate from their responses that ‘they aspire to the moral-agent professional model, perceiving a discrepancy between what exists and what is desired.’ (ibid: 442)