Caring curriculum

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Caring curriculum is an American approach that combines school education with preparation for human coexistence. The American social psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner developed the demand for a "curriculum for caring" from the first year of school out of his criticism of crumbling social security and the isolation of childhood. The American scientist Nel Noddings (1992) used the term Caring Curriculum to set up a model that all learning must be primarily focused on care. In doing so, she distinguishes between caring for oneself, for those close to us and friends, for strangers who are far from us, for plants and animals, for the world made by humans and for ideas. These dimensions are to be understood as interdisciplinary realizable educational goals and not to be assigned to a single subject or area of ​​study. In the German-speaking discourse, the term housework didactics intends to have similar educational-theoretical consequences.

literature

  • Urie Bronfenbrenner: Social environmental destruction . In: Neue Sammlung 21, 1981, pp. 176–185.
  • Astrid Kaiser : Caring curriculum for non-technical teaching . In: Astrid Kaiser / Detlef Pech (Hrsg.): Integrative approaches for subject teaching . Schneider, Baltmannsweiler 2004, pp. 188-205.
  • Nel Noddings: The Challenge to Care in Schools - An Alternative Approach to Education . Teachers College Press, New York 1992.