The purpose of the study is to look into the theoretical background of care ethics with the focus on Carol Gilligan and Nel Noddings and conduct a study on how care ethics can be applied in school ethics course.
The most serious malady of korean educ...
The purpose of the study is to look into the theoretical background of care ethics with the focus on Carol Gilligan and Nel Noddings and conduct a study on how care ethics can be applied in school ethics course.
The most serious malady of korean education is that university entrance comes before everything else. In this educational climate, the only thing students are interested in is how can get a good grade.
The education is producing student with bighead but without warm hearts. In one phrase, basic character and ethics education is not being given properly.
The Cognitive Moral Development Theory that centers on Lawrence Kohlberg, who had formed the main stream in 60's and 70's, set the goal of Moral education to the development of the ability to make moral judgments and power to reason. As the result, the affective subjects such as caring as others, sympathy, love and responsibility have been managed carelessly.
The one who pointed out problems of cognitive moral education of Kohlberg's and advocated care ethics is Gilligan. Gilligan criticizes that Kohlberg's method of study contains prejudices.
Gilligan emphasizes that the voice of caring that distinguishes itself from the voice of justice does exist. The contents of women's ethics are warm-heartedness and responsibility, and communication and relationship oriented. She assumed the care ethics to develop through 3 levels and 2 transition periods.
Noddings accepted Gillgan's standpoint on care ethics and developed care ethics in the sense of ethical studies even further. Noddings criticizes the existing ethics have evaluated care ethics that incorporates female characteristics to be minor. Gilligan and Noddings reveal that care ethics was designed to make a better world and find greater meaning, and it is never an ethics for women only.
This paper does not stop at making a theoretical study on care ethics. In the university entrance centered climate of education. students see their friends whom they were to open their minds to as their competitors. In order to build a warm society where people live in harmony, caring for others is more essential than ever.
I have deeply considered on what alternatives there could be in school ethics text book in order to resolve such a problem in school education.
And as an alternative, I have come to study a plan that applies theories on care ethics in school ethics.
As a scheme to teach care ethics in school. I have applied two types of models - care linking home model and reflective care model - to the ethics textbook. The ethics education methods Noddings said, modeling, dialogue, practice and confirmation namely, were used in class at appropriate times.
The result of teaching classes with care model, the possibility was shown that in the classes where care ethics was applied to school ethics course can bring development in ethics in care ethics.
Care linking home model is for the reinforcement of the will to practice care ethics. It is thought that when class and home are conducted using care linking home model. it gives the chance to those who care to grow in character. In other to prevent students' care activities from stopping at simple experience, ethics teacher should link the care activities with home; especially care ethics education in his/her teaching.
Although care linking home model and reflective care model were applied as a scheme to apply care ethics in school ethics course, one cannot say that these models is everything about the method of education to teach care ethics in field. I believe that dialogue study and role-play is also some of the appropriate methods to apply care ethics.
What results the classes that apply care ethics in ethics course will bring in the student's development of ethics remains as a study assignment. \
In addition, establishing a plan to develop parameter to evaluate affective factors in care ethics is required.
In order to apply care ethics to school ethics course, classical literature, newspaper, comics, animation, role-play and photographs can be used. Also, one should not limit the application of care ethics in school ethics course to classrooms, and consider linking it to home and society.
Above all, teachers must teach students not to stop at ′knowing ate caring is' but to ′one who cares for others.' In order to achieve this, teachers first have to be those who care and endeavor to develop open relationship with students.