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Trust Is Not Enough: Classroom Self‐disclosure and the Loss of Private Lives
Author(s) -
BISHOP NICOLE
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of philosophy of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.501
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9752
pISSN - 0309-8249
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9752.1996.tb00411.x
Subject(s) - sympathy , self disclosure , psychology , social psychology , self , self determination , public relations , internet privacy , political science , law , computer science
The paper presents and critiques some important philosophical and educational arguments that are used to support the practice of personal self‐disclosure in the classroom, both in group settings and in the form of autobiographical journals. It argues that there are important reasons for valuing privacy even when self‐disclosures occur in an environment of perfect trust and caring; that to understand the importance of privacy primarily in terms of trust, or the absence of trust, is to risk overlooking the less apparent, yet more subtle, threats which ‘sympathy’ and ‘caring’ can pose to self‐disclosers.