Nel+Noddings



Nel Noddings Some Major Works: //Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education// (1984) //Women and Evil// (1989) //The Challenge of Care in Schools// (1992) //Educating Moral People// (2002) //Happiness and Education// (1995) //Critical Lessons// (2006) //These notes may make little sense to anyone but I thought I would post them. The ideas I find most interesting (to me personaly) are the foundations of her ethical ideas which relate to Marx. This is what I would like to talk about in the presentation. I have clear and pretty easy to understand discriptions and examples of the notes that follow.// //I do not however, have her contributions to education as a whole, though I understand them.// //Anyway...we will see.// //i also posted a document of research books from the liberary I have been reading.//

Philosophy & Ideas: -examples of her philosophy of ethics and caring - the "other" etc. what is in the exchange? What is the true nature of the relationship? Reminds me of Marx in the sense that her analysis is not focused on teacher or student (though both are very important) but on the "relations" i.e. the "conditions in which they are working" - attention on "relation" as opposed to individual moral character of those within relationship. "I don't want equality in the way it is. I want to change the world: make a better world for women, men and kids." -quote from ol' Nel
 * Parents didn't graduate from high school
 * She read Freud while a teenager
 * Went to a "progressive" school as a child
 * Loved her family but felt "detached" from them and found solice and support from teachers and school
 * Taught 6th grade after college (and high school)
 * Went to Stanford
 * Taught at "Dewey" school in Chicago
 * Became full Prof. at Stanford
 * Studied Philosophy and Education
 * Idea of "ethics" started during her first teaching job - 6th grade
 * //Caring// - 1st book (1984) "bring parts of my life together" i.e. Philosophical Anaysis, Teaching & Mothering
 * What is consciousness like when we care?
 * "unconditional receptivity" "attention"
 * "modivational displacement" "answer needs of others"
 * emphasis on "relation"
 * What is the contributuon of the "cared for?"
 * Caring is a way of "being" in the world.
 * Those who care become more competent
 * care encourages Critical Thinking "What am I to do?"
 * Caring is not a "fuzzy" thing; it is a cocrete relation to the other and the world around you. It proceeds ETHICS and Morality and is their moral foundation.
 * Liberal Feminism does not go far enough.
 * Their is a rationality to caring.

History:http://group3007fall10.wikispaces.com/file/detail/nel%2Bnoddings%2Bpwpt+revised.pptx **(This link is a shortcut to the revised Powerpoint. I could not get it to downlaod to the Nel Noddings page but it is in the Wiki Recent Changes Page.)**


 * we get most of Nel Noddings contribution through her philosophy and beliefs