Teacher Education as a Moral Endeavor

Development and Validation of the “Tübingen Inventory to Measure Teachers’ Profession-Specific Value Orientations” (TIVO)

“…For instance, values have been cited as the basis for explaining behavior patterns, attitudes, or motives for and goals of action (Kluckhohn, 1951;Schwartz, 1992); even social subsystems can be distinguished in terms of their value preferences (Bond, 1988;Höffe, 2008;Schwartz, 2011). The importance of values in teachers' professional action has been particularly emphasized in the literature addressing the moral dimension of teaching (Carr, 2010;Klaassen et al, 2016;Oser, 1994).Although the empirical investigation of general values in different societies and for different social subsystems…”