ABSTRACT

The caring approach to moral education has been developed from the ethics of care. To understand it and use it effectively in classrooms, therefore, one needs to know something about care ethics and its relation to other forms of ethics. This chapter starts with some background material on caring and ethics; it then proceeds to a discussion of caring in the caring professions and the importance of providing a moral climate for education in general and for moral education in particular. The last section lays out a model of moral education and discusses classroom practice.