Caring!!!!

Recently, I became aware of a website,http://www.infed.org/thinkers/noddings.htm. It was about a former teach, mathematician, administrator, author and Stanford Professor Emeriti, Dr. Nel Noddings. She discusses the ethics of caring in education. Noddings is rooted in education. She is direct and to the point. She has demonstrated the importance of caring and relationships with regards to education.

Caring should be at the root for ethical decision-making. All people want to be cared for; it is basic in human life. As future teachers, we need to take Noddings’s concept into consideration, when we have interactions and are making decisions concerning our students. If we do not, we will not be helping our students reach their personal best. What is more important is the fact that we are doing them a great disservice because we are neglecting them!