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ERIC ED453280: Caring and Competence: Nel Noddings' Curriculum Thought.

Nel Noddings makes the case that producing caring and competent people ought to be the principal goal of education, suggesting that educators establish the conditions in which students with differing interests, capacities, and needs can achieve things that are educationally worthwhile. This paper considers how Noddings approaches two questions fundamental to curriculum theory and practice. One is where the curriculum maker should begin and the other is how Noddings would reconstitute the school curriculum. Noddings believes that a "preactive" curriculum, a body of materials prepared in advance and intended for instruction, has inherent educational limitations. Noddings advocated an interactive view of curriculum that grows from the interactions among teachers, students, and materials. Her objections to coercion and standardization do not mean that she favors educational anarchy. She suggests recasting the language for reform rather than being trapped by it. Standards, for example, if applied to individual children, may be a wonderful means of educational planning. Rather than requiring all students to learn the same material through the same activities, Noddings would invite each s

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