Who is Nel Noddings?
Nel Noddings is a professor of education at Stanford University, California, and author of an inspiring book, The Challenge to Care in Schools. Her formal biography lists her academic achievements, and her 15 years as a high school mathematics teacher, administrator and curriculum developer in public schools in the United States (equivalent to maintained schools in England). But Noddings writes primarily as a feminist, a philosopher, a mother, a compassionate and caring person, who is committed to the principle that the main aim of education is a moral one, 'to encourage the growth of competent, caring, loving and loveable persons (2002:94).
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