Presentation
Social Studies and Care Ethics: One Novice Teacher Learns to Teach Social Studies With Care as the End View
Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA)
(2013)
Abstract
Social studies helps prepare students for citizenship; however, given the current push to arrange instruction in response to high-stakes tests, social studies instruction is often omitted from the school day. Furthermore, when social studies is taught, a didactic textbook-driven method is often used, which students consistently describe as dull and irrelevant. This study explored how the theoretical perspective of care ethics enlivened one novice elementary teacher’s social studies pedagogy, resulting in her students’ caring both for the subject and their peers.
Keywords
- Case Studies,
- Elementary Schools,
- Ethics
Disciplines
Publication Date
April 28, 2013
Location
San Francisco, CA
Comments
Paper presented as part of session: Integrity, Care, and Empathy: Moral Conduct and Moral Judgment of Students and Teachers.
Citation Information
Colette Rabin and Grinell Smith. "Social Studies and Care Ethics: One Novice Teacher Learns to Teach Social Studies With Care as the End View" Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) (2013) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/grinell_smith/37/