The Meaning of Noddings’ Caring and Relation Concepts in Teaching：A Senior Elementary School Teacher’s Self-narrative about Caring Practice.

• Main Authors: Ting, Shing Ping, 丁心平
• Other Authors: Yiu,Tzu-Ta
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/b8t2rg

博士 === 國立臺中教育大學 === 教育學系 === 106 === The purpose of this dissertation was to discuss the implications of the caring and relation concepts from an American educational philosopher, Nel Noddings. The researcher, an elementary school teacher with 37 years of teaching experiences, adopted the self-narrative approach to explore the teaching practice of ethical caring that was suggested by Nel Noddings. The self-narrative approach also included how to use Noddings’ moral education theories in caring practice by four means. This dissertation is summarized as followings： First, the memory of our own best moments of caring and being cared for sweeps us into a feeling as an“I must”- in response to the others. We can design the activities to arouse the feeling "I care.”, then to the feeling“ I should to do the duty. I commit to do it”, and eventually build the caring abilities in this process. Second, caring review begins with honesty, and tries to make the student feel that the teacher loves him/her, listens to him/her, understands him/her, and accepts him/her, in order to establish a warm caring relationship. Third, teaching is the practice of morality. Encourage students to say thank you to those whom have helped them. Fourth, the four great means of nurturing the caring are role modeling, dialogue, practice, and confirmation. 1. Role modeling starts from the teacher practicing caring. 2. Smart dialogue brings the caring and the strength. 3. Assist students to grow up in caring practice. 4. Confirm students, letting them understand their worth. Fifth, teachesrs enter the inner world of students. Teachers can empathize with the students, continuing on engrossment and motivational displacement in order to traslate natural to ethical caring. Sixth, intern mentorship is practical caring, as well as a profession. The orientation and training of the tutor should be included as part of the teacher development program. In addition to the professional ability of the tutor, he/she must also have the abilities to teach the trainee teachers the professional knowledge. Seventh, the acquisition of caring is learned from “responsiveness”. To make the student feel that teachers love him/her and value him/her, the school often holds some meaningful activities. Because love can evoke the memory of inner caring, students will further establish the image “I want to love my school. ” Through the curriculum, can be used as the method of empathy to teach students to love himself /herself, and extend to love his/her family, school, country and the world.