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- The caring ethic suggests that teachers approach student needs from the subjective perspective of “I must do something” rather than the more objective “something must be done” approach. Teachers are motivated by this philosophy to perform conscious acts of “being with” and “doing for” for the sake of their students.
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Caring. Nel Noddings is closely identified with the promotion of the ethics of care, – the argument that caring should be a foundation for ethical decision-making. Her first major work Caring (1984) explored what she described as a ‘feminine approach to ethics and moral education’.
Care ethics is widely applied to a number of moral issues and ethical fields, including caring for animals and the environment, bioethics, and more recently public policy.
The ethics of care sees a disposition to care appropriately for others as the chief characteristic of a morally desirable psychology. Such a disposition can be viewed as a virtue.
To achieve the kind of care among teachers we envisage through education, universities and schools will have to re-examine the role of care for student educators during teaching practice. Keywords: neoliberalism; education; minimised care; ethics care; ubuntu-care.
Jan 5, 2011 · In order to explore this connection, I discuss some specific normative features of the ethics of care—primarily the comprehension of the moral agent and the concept of care—as these two key elements contribute substantially to a new ethical outlook.
- Tove Pettersen
- 2011
Mar 24, 2021 · Noddings (2005) established the Ethic of Care as foundational to human morality. At its most basic, the care ethic is a needs- and response-based ethic, dependent upon a relationship between at least two people, the carer and the recipient of care, or cared-for.
Summary. Care theory emphasizes relation, attending to the expressed needs of the other in human encounters. It does not ignore virtue and justice, but its central concept is relation. In education, this means that the expressed needs of students must be considered—not always satisfied, but always included in the teacher’s deliberations.
