EDEC 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Nel Noddings, Ethics, Human Nature

• School: McGill University
• Department: Curriculum and Instruction
• Course: EDEC 260
• Professor: Ronald Morris

Document Summary

To help you develop a better understanding of an important educational concept that of care and caring and to raise your self-awareness and agency as an educator /practitioner in the process. You will become familiar with some of the main underlying features of the concept of care as defined by nel. *relational ethics > it"s through i(cid:374)tera(cid:272)tio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d i(cid:374)ter-relationship that we develop the idea of right and wrong)* The one caring- the one who cares like a teacher. The cared for- the student or the patient. Defining ethics: the philosophical study of human character traits and of human conduct, along with it rules and governing principles. (ethics- the practical wisdom about human behavior. Moral and ethics can intertwine). (care relates to ethics). What counts are the consequences- does it result in a good or negative feeling: the ontology looks at certain principles of acting- a rule based ethics).