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Chapter 10 - Practicing Care Ethics in the Current Context

from Part II - New Approaches to Moral Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2023

By
Colette Rabin
Edited by
Douglas W. Yacek ,
Mark E. Jonas  and
Kevin H. Gary
Douglas W. Yacek
Affiliation:
Universität Dortmund
Mark E. Jonas
Affiliation:
Wheaton College, Illinois
Kevin H. Gary
Affiliation:
Valparaiso University, Indiana
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Summary

Care ethics is a relational approach to moral education and learning to care is a critical educational aim. Research on care ethics in practice in educational settings has clarified what it means to care for students and has led to critiques that inform what care might look like in practice across differences, such as race, class, and gender. In light of these movements in care ethics, a current societal moral dilemma, the global teacher exodus, is examined as a failure to care for teachers so that they might care for students.

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care ethicsmoral educationteacher attritionNel Noddingsrelational learning
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Moral Education in the 21st Century , pp. 171 - 191
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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