Nel+Noddings

= Nel Noddings = = ** (Lee L. Jacks Professor Emerita, Stanford University) ** =

Biographical Information:
Add Content Here. Nel Noddings was born in 1929 in Irvington, New Jersey. She has 10 kids and has been married with the same man (James A. Noddings) for 62 years. She achieved a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and physical science from Montclair State College in 1949 and a master’s degree from Rutgers University in 1964. Then she received her PhD degree in the fields of education from Stanford University in 1973. After g raduating from Stanford University by achieving a Ph.D degree in education in 1973, she began teaching education at Pennsylvania State University, and then she became the University of Chicago’s director of precollegiate education. She maintained her carrier by returning to Stanford in 1977 and become director of teacher education, associate dean and acting dean. Noddings was named Lee L. Jacks Professor of Child Education in 1992. Her work has included analysis of caring and its place in ethics (//Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education - 1984//); an attempt to rethink evil from the perspective of women (//Women and Evil// - 1989) and a series of books that have explored the implications of a concern for caring with education (//The Challenge to Care in Schools - 1992; Educating Moral People -// 2002; // Happiness and Education // - 2003)//.// Nel Noddings has also sought to encourage people to engage philosophically with education (//Philosophy of Education,// // Educating for Intelligent Belief or Unbelief // - 1995)//,// and explored welfare policy if caring - a way of life learned in homes - is placed at its centre (//Starting at Home: Caring and Social Policy -// 2002) Smith, M. K. (2004). Nel Noddings has made a substantial contribution to deepening our appreciation of what education entails - both in terms of the direction it takes (education for public and home life), and around the significance of caring. She shows us that caring is a moral attitude 'informed by the complex skills of interpersonal reasoning, that it is neither without its own forms of rigour nor somehow less professional than the calculated skills of formal logic' (Finders 2001: 214).

**Research Interests and Projects:**
Add Content Here. The main concentratio n of Nel Noddings were ;

**1. **Caring and reciprocity. **2. **Caring, schooling and education. · Modelling · Dialogue · Practice · Confirmation **3. **'Natural' caring and maternal experience. **4. **The relationship of care theory to moral truth.

**Other Important Facts:**
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 * Nel Noddings herself has listed three categories of things that she knows matter to her because of observing herself: domestic life, learning and writing, and living life as a moral quest (O'Toole 1998).
 * She was the past president of the Philosophy of Education Society and the John Dewey Society.
 * She has been Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education, Emerita, at Stanford University since she retired in 1998.