Faculty Publications

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

January 2013

Publication Title

Journal of Moral Education

Volume

42

Issue Number

2

First Page

164

Last Page

176

ISSN

0305-7240

Keywords

moral education, care ethics, teacher education

Disciplines

Other Education | Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education | Teacher Education and Professional Development

Abstract

An ethic of care acknowledges the centrality of the role of caring relationships in moral education. Care ethics requires a conception of ‘care’ that differs from the quotidian use of the word. In order to teach care ethics more effectively, this article discusses four interrelated ways that teachers’ understandings of care differ from care ethics: (1) conflating the term of reference ‘care’ with its quotidian use; (2) overlooking the challenge of developing caring relationships; (3) tending toward monocultural understandings of care; and (4) separating affect and intellect. Awareness of these conceptions of care supports teacher educators to teach care ethics in more meaningful and relevant ways. We explore stories and their dramatization as a medium to facilitate effective and in-depth teaching of care ethics.

Comments

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in the Journal of Moral Education, on 22 April 2013, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/03057240.2013.785942.
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