scholarly journals How to Develop True Care: Three Interviews with Nel Noddings

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Masao Yokota ◽  
Clarissa Douglass ◽  
Nel Noddings
Keyword(s):  
Education Reform ◽  
John Dewey ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Care Ethics ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
Nel Noddings ◽  
General Audience ◽  
The Third ◽  
Soka Gakkai ◽  
Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

In these three interviews conducted in 2011, 2012 and 2016 and then translated for Japanese language publications, Nel Noddings discusses care ethics, today’s educational practices vis-à-vis her recent books, as well as how she and her husband Jim raised their ten children.  The first two interviews appeared in Seikyo Shimbun, the daily newspaper for Soka Gakkai, a Buddhist lay organization based on the practice and study of Nichiren (1222-1282).  The third interview appeared in Ushio, a monthly magazine aimed at a general audience.  Providing a backdrop for the interviews is common ground found in the work of education philosophers John Dewey (1859-1952) and Tsunesaburo Makiguchi (1871-1944).  In 1930, Makiguchi founded Soka Gakkai’s forerunner, Soka Kyoiku Gakkai, comprised of teachers and educators actively promoting education reform in Japan as advocated in Makiguchi’s The System of Value-Creating Pedagogy (1930). 

Medical and Nursing Ethics: Never the Twain?

1995 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Gallagher
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Care Ethics ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Health Care Ethics ◽  
Nursing Ethics ◽  
Nel Noddings ◽  
Shared Learning ◽  
Caring Relationship

Since the publication of Carol Gilligan's In a different voice in 1982, there has been much discussion about masculine and feminine approaches to ethics. It has been suggested that an ethics of care, or a feminine ethics, is more appropriate for nursing practice, which contrasts with the 'traditional, masculine' ethics of medicine. It has been suggested that Nel Noddings' version of an 'ethics of care' (or feminine ethics) is an appropriate model for nursing ethics. The 'four principles' approach has become a popular model for medical or health care ethics. It will be suggested in this article that, whilst Noddings presents an interesting analysis of caring and the caring relationship, this has limitations. Rather than acting as an alternative to the 'four principles' approach, the latter is necessary to provide a framework to structure thinking and decision-making in health care. Further, it will be suggested that ethical separatism (that is, one ethics for nurses and one for doctors) in health care is not a progressive step for nurses or doctors. Three recommendations are made: that we promote a health care ethics that incorporates what is valuable in a 'traditional, masculine ethics', the why (four principles approach) and an 'ethics of care', the 'how' (aspects of Noddings' work and that of Urban Walker); that we encourage nurses and doctors to participate in the 'shared learning' and discussion of ethics; and that our ethical language and concerns are common to all, not split into unhelpful dichotomies.

The Scylding Dynasty in Saxo and Beowulf as Disguised Theogony

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Lyle
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
The Third ◽  
Fifth Generation ◽  
The Common

The common ground between the representations of the Scylding dynasty in Saxo’s Gesta Danorum and Beowulf consists of four generations and this set has already been explored in the legendary context. There is, however, a hidden intervening generation between the third and fourth generations which becomes visible when attention is paid to the succeeding reigns of Balder and Høther, taken along with the birth of Rolf Krake from father-daughter incest in Saxo which means that Rolf’s mother belongs to the generation after his father. This chapter argues that this intervening generation corresponds to that of the young gods in a proposed Indo-European theogony and is that of the death of Balder, while the fifth generation is that of the mortal avenger.

Indians and Missionaries

2020 ◽  
pp. 192-225
Author(s):  
Kate Flint
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Belief System ◽  
Blind Spot ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Third ◽  
Material Benefits ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Third World

This chapter studies British–First Nations relations, looking at Indians and missionaries. The missionaries in question, though, are not just the British who worked in Canada, but First Nations men who toured Britain as preachers and spokespeople. The chapter extends the category to include George Copway, whose account of his 1850 visit to Britain, en route to the third World Peace Conference, provides an extended example of native engagement with, and enthusiasm for, modernity. Many of the white missionaries believed they were importing spiritual and material benefits that would allow their native flocks to engage more effectively with an increasingly technological, less localized, and less subsistence-based world. Native commentators who left accounts likewise often position themselves, however awkwardly, as mediators between old and new lifestyles and discourses. Although they often situate themselves quite confidently as supporters of progress, setting the supposedly ahistorical and primitive against the teleological imperatives that informed late-nineteenth-century social systems, this confidence often breaks down when it comes to the question of belief. Not only do they—both native and white—often seek to establish a common ground between native and Christian spirituality, but they have, perhaps inevitably, a blind spot when it comes to asking whether the substitution, or overlaying, of one belief system with another does, in fact, constitute a form of modernity.

Dewey and Higher Education

2018 ◽  
pp. 392-410
Author(s):  
Leonard J. Waks
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
John Dewey ◽  
Final Stage ◽  
Logical Theory ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The University ◽  
Theory Of Inquiry

While John Dewey wrote relatively little about higher education, he had a well-developed and largely unexplored conception of the university, grounded in his three- stage account of thought or inquiry as developed in Studies in Logical Theory and further developed in Logic: Theory of Inquiry. The first stage is antecedent to inquiry proper, residing in the situations of living that evoke thought. The second is inquiry proper, where data or immediate materials are subjected to systematic thought to yield judgment. The third is the moment after thought has considered its data and reached its result and brought it forth in situations of living as transformed by this new element. This final stage, is the “objective of thought” but lies outside of the context of inquiry proper. This chapter, building on the Dewey corpus, explains that conception, with close attention to university-based research, teaching, and service.

French private sector shows huge divergence of attitudes to religious diversity

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-5
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Effective Strategies ◽  
The Third ◽  
Points Of Interest ◽  
Separation Strategy

Purpose The purpose of this study is to find out whether French companies in the private sector were willing to make allowances to help religious minorities to integrate and express themselves. They also wanted to analyze if the accommodations caused resentment among other staff. Design/methodology/approach The authors carried out 28 semi-structured interviews with individuals in positions of authority at private sector companies. Findings They found three common strategies. The first was “flexibility within the rules,” meaning managers made allowances for religious practices. The second was the “separation strategy,” insisting on the strong adherence to rules and refusing to make allowances. The third common approach was a “common ground strategy” that found common points of interest between all workers. Originality/value Clashes between managers and religious workers are becoming more common in Europe as religiosity is on the rise. The results help managers to formulate effective strategies to deal with the issues.

Common Witness Between Catholics and Pentecostals1

Pneuma ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 185-216
Author(s):  
Walter J. Hollenweger
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
The Third ◽  
Corporate History ◽  
Ecclesiastical Authority ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
Third Millennium ◽  
No Man's Land ◽  
The One ◽  
Constructive Engagement

AbstractFor many years, Christians in the Pentecostal and Catholic traditions have been involved in a kind of border war, complete with territory disputes and border skirmishes. As we approach the Third Millennium, the time is now right for a declaration of truce, for constructive engagement, and-as the title of this essay suggests-the discovery of a "common witness." But upon what basis can a peace be established? On the basis of a shared sense of ecclesiastical authority, on a shared personal and corporate history, or on shared perspectives about theology and piety? It is the position of this essay that the one viable course of action is the last of these three options. The border fights have been over the first two, and because of them we have come to think of the border between Catholics and Pentecostals as a kind of no man's land. But on the basis of the third another course of action opens up; by the grace of God what has been a no man's land may become common ground. We actually have much more in common than we have allowed ourselves to think.

Musical Minimalism and the Metaphysics of Time

2018 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 1267-1306
Author(s):  
Nemesio García-Carril Puy
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
Musical Work ◽  
Complex Relation ◽  
The Third ◽  
Phenomenal Knowledge ◽  
Musical Works ◽  
Static View ◽  
Metaphysics Of Time ◽  
Musical Context ◽  
In Virtue Of

I defend in this paper the thesis that there is a complex relation between minimalist musical works and the metaphysics of time, involving ontological, epistemological and axiological issues. This relation is explained by means of three sub-theses. The first one is that minimalist musical works literally exemplify –in Goodman’s sense– the properties ascribed to time by the metaphysical static view: 1) minimalist works intrinsically possess those properties by being composed according to the technique of minimal repetition; 2) they extrinsically refer to those properties in virtue of pragmatic processes of accommodation of disagreements on what is taken to be common ground in a particular musical context. The second sub-thesis is that, in exemplifying those properties, minimalist musical works are valuable from two perspectives: a formalist one, according to which minimalist works purify the concept of what a musical work is; and a cognitive one, insofar they allow us to obtain phenomenal knowledge of what it is like to experience time as the static view conceives it. The third sub-thesis is that each particular minimalist musical work is valuable insofar it achieves either the formalist or the cognitive goals in an original way.

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