Presentation
Toward Deeper Understandings of Care Ethics in Teacher Education
Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA)
(2015)
Abstract
Care ethics acknowledges the centrality of caring relationships in moral education. To teach care ethics, we investigated teachers’ preconceptions of care and found they tended to: (1) conflate the term “care” with its quotidian use; (2) underestimate the challenge of developing caring relationships; (3) tend toward monocultural understandings of care; and (4) separate affect and intellect. We developed cases explicitly designed to help teachers transcend these preconceptions and investigated their learning through reflective dialogues over them. We found the cases cultivated deeper understanding of care ethics in practice in culturally diverse settings.
Keywords
- Case Studies,
- Moral Education/Development,
- Teacher Education - Pre-Service
Disciplines
Publication Date
April 17, 2015
Location
Chicago, IL
Comments
Presented as part of the Roundtable Session: Moral Development and Education SIG Roundtable on Teachers and Teacher Education.
Citation Information
Colette Rabin and Grinell Smith. "Toward Deeper Understandings of Care Ethics in Teacher Education" Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) (2015) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/colette_rabin/38/