Dr. Richard Osguthorpe is a professor in the Department of Curriculum, Instruction, and Foundational Studies in the College of Education at Boise State University. He received his Ph.D. in Educational Foundations and Policy from the University of Michigan in 2005, with emphases in philosophy of education, educational foundations in a multicultural society, and organizational theory and leadership. He conducts research that combines conceptual analysis and empirical study, and his scholarly interests include: the moral dimensions of teaching; the study of moral education and moral development in schools; the use of practical reason and practical argument in teacher development; the pedagogy of educational foundations; the role of cultural and multicultural studies in teacher education; and the application of leadership and change theories to classroom contexts. He teaches foundations of education and philosophy of education courses in both the undergraduate and graduate programs, and he works as a liaison in partner schools.
Articles
The Moral Nature of Teacher Candidate Beliefs About the Purposes of Schooling and Their Reasons for Choosing Teaching as a Career (with Matthew N. Sanger), Peabody Journal of Education (2013)
This study reports teacher candidate beliefs about the purposes of schooling and their reasons for...
Modeling as Moral Education: Documenting, Analyzing, and Addressing a Central Belief of Preservice Teachers (with Matthew N. Sanger), Teaching and Teacher Education (2013)
This study reports belief survey data from 92 preservice teachers responding to questions about the...
Teacher Education, Preservice Teacher Beliefs, and the Moral Work of Teaching (with Matthew N. Sanger), Teaching & Teacher Education (2011)
This paper presents a case for attending to preservice teachers’ beliefs that are relevant to...
Students as Carers across Three Disciplines: Quantifying Student Caring in Higher Education (with Sandra Nadelson and Louis Nadelson), The Researcher (2010)
This research project evaluated nursing, education, and engineering students’ perceptions of themselves and their academic...
Pedagogical Considerations that May Encourage Character Development in a Distance Education Course (with Michael C. Johnson and David D. Williams), Journal of College and Character (2010)
The aims espoused by institutions of higher education often entail the development of students’ character....
Contributions to Books
Decorating for NCATE (with Jennifer L. Snow-Gerono), Tensions in Teacher Preparation : Accountability, Assessment, and Accreditation (2010)
The report from our recent accreditation visit indicated that the unit has an emerging framework...
A Reconceptualization of Teacher Manner, Affective Teacher Education: Exploring Connections Between Knowledge, Skills, and Dispositions (2009)
Affective Teacher Education is one of the first books to provide teacher educators, classroom teachers,...
Presentations
Telling the Story of a Teacher Education Shared Leadership Team: Insights, Challenges and Connections to Outcomes (Interactive Session) (with Jennifer Snow, Susan Martin, Kenneth Coll, and Diane Boothe), Annual Meeting of the American Association for Colleges of Teacher Education (2011)