Nel noddings' theory of education

Nel Noddings, the ethics of care and education, Nel Noddings is well known for her work around the ethics of caring, however, she has also added significantly to theory and practice more broadly in education. Here we explore her contribution.

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Nel Noddings (1929-2022) made a significant contribution to our appreciation of education. In particular, her explorations of the ethics of care – and their relationship to schooling, welfare, and to learning and teaching within families and local communities came at an especially apposite moment. She was able to demonstrate the significance of caring and relationships both as an educational goal and as a fundamental aspect of education. As a result, Nel Noddings’ work became a key reference point for those wanting to reaffirm the ethical and moral foun

Stanford Oral History Collections

purl.stanford.edu/ym046qv4846
Title:
Nel Noddings : An Oral History
Author:
Noddings, Nel and Rosenberg, Chelsea
Corporate Author:
Stanford Historical Society
Description:
Nel Noddings, the Lee Jacks Professor Emerita of Education at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education, is a philosopher and educational researcher best known for her ethics of care theory which she described in her 1984 book, Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education. Her care theory and educational philosophy is informed both by her graduate studies at Stanford in the 1970s and her long career, beginning in 1949, as a teacher and school administrator. She returned to Stanford as an associate professor in 1979 where, in addition to teaching and her research, she ran the Stanford Teacher Education Program (STEP) and filled in as acting dean of the Graduate School of Education in the mid 1990s. In this interview she speaks about her professional and research career, set against the backdrop of her life as a wife and mother of te

Nel Noddings

American philosopher (1929–2022)

Nel Noddings (; January 19, 1929 – August 25, 2022) was an American feminist, educator, and philosopher best known for her work in philosophy of education, educational theory, and ethics of care.

Biography

Noddings received a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physical science from Montclair State University in New Jersey, a master's degree in mathematics from Rutgers University, and a PhD in education from the Stanford University Graduate School of Education.

Nel Noddings worked in many areas of the education system. She spent seventeen years as an elementary and high school mathematics teacher and school administrator, before earning her PhD and beginning work as an academic in the fields of philosophy of education, theory of education and ethics, specifically moral education and ethics of care. She became a member of the Stanford faculty in 1977, and was the Jacks Professor of Child Education from 1992 until 1998. While at Stanford University she received awards for teaching excellence in 1981, 1982 and 1997, an

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