Care Theory

After reading the Nel Noddings article on Moral Education in an Age of Globalization (2010) I became consumed with great interest about how this may impact my own classroom. The innovative strategy can provide a learning opportunity that can be tied into the curriculum, but practiced in many different methods.

Care Theory and ethical justice has classroom application for situations like bullying but overtime becomes a type of lifestyle for the classroom community. After reading the article I developed a sense of awareness to my own moral and ethical actions and even considered some of the ways I may have acted/reacted this week and how they were perceived by students.

Teachers like myself, could benefit from workshops offering direction and practice on how to model care ethics. I have had the luxury of teaching a secondary school leadership class and witnessed a paradigm shift in some of the student population. A transition to a more caring and ethical community in a marginal population. I think when you give students the opportunity to be the role model (to younger students especially) they adopt a more caring and ethical mindset, especially if the teacher they are learning from embodies those same qualities.

http://infed.org/mobi/nel-noddings-the-ethics-of-care-and-education/