The impact of field experience on preservice teachers' understandings of caring

From: Teacher Education Quarterly | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Caring is considered a crucial aspect of good teaching. Kohl (1984), for example, asserts "a teacher has an obligation to care about every student" (p. 66); Rogers and Webb (1991) insist "good teachers care, and good teaching is inextri-cably linked to specific acts of caring" (p. 174). This holds true regardless of the age of the learners: scholars have argued for the importance of caring teaching in work with students in early childhood educational settings (Bredekamp & Copple, 1997), elementary schools (Charney, 1991), secondary schools (Noddings, 1992), and higher education ...

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