Faculty Publications
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2008
Publication Title
The Constructivist
Volume
19
Issue Number
1
ISSN
1091-4072
Disciplines
Teacher Education and Professional Development
Abstract
Teacher educators have a civic responsibility to prepare novice teachers to foster relationships across cultural, racial, and socioeconomic divides. Care ethics acknowledges this imperative. This study explores how to cultivate the knowledge, skills and dispositions associated with constructing a caring stance toward the work of teaching. Data come from two preservice teacher education courses. A cluster of course activities sought to foster novice teachers’ core skills for a caring stance. In particular, one assignment, an ethical dilemma case, gave the novice teachers the opportunity to write a narrative about practice and consider any potential moral implications. Since narrative methodology accounts for context and particularity, the assignment supported novice teachers’ consideration of the demands of care in relationship.
Recommended Citation
Colette Rabin. "Constructing an Ethic of Care in Teacher Education: Narrative as Pedagogy Toward Care" The Constructivist (2008).
Comments
This article was published in The Constructivist, volume 19, issue 1, 2008. Copyright is held by the Association for Constructivist Teaching (ACT). It is included here with the permission of the Association president.