A Study on the Implications of Self-care Theory for Primary and Secondary School Teachers’ Load Reduction

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10.2991/978-2-38476-004-6_21How to use a DOI?

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Caring ethics; Caring education; Caring behaviour of teachers; Caring relationships

Abstract

In an increasingly institutionalised education system, Noddings emphasised the humanity of education. Noddings developed an ethics of care with ‘care’ at its core, forming a model of moral education ‘with care as its goal’. Noddings’ ethics of care transcends traditional ethics in three ways: the particularizing ethics of the ethics of care transcends the traditional universalizing ethics; the relational nature of the ethics of care transcends the single subjectivity of traditional ethics; and the emotional nature of the ethics of care transcends the rationality of traditional ethics. Classroom teaching is the main form of education in school, the basic way to achieve the aims of education, and the most direct place for teachers and students to interact and build relationships with each other. The classroom is the place where teachers and students learn and live together, and it is also an indispensable process in the growth of students’ lives. Through the classroom, teachers fulfil their responsibility to teach and educate, and students experience the meaning of growth. It is therefore particularly important to develop a deep understanding of Noddings’ theory of caring, to explore the meaning of teachers’ caring in classroom life, to analyse the elements of teachers’ caring behaviour and to construct a theoretical model of teachers’ caring behaviour.

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