Nell Noddings said in the introduction, "Listening carefully and responding positively are the basic signs of attention." In the book, she emphasizes the communication between teachers and students, and hopes that teachers can take the initiative to understand each of their students, their interests, hobbies and specialties, and listen to their children's voices. In the process of reading, I wonder whether the "care" repeatedly mentioned in the author's book is equivalent to "tolerance". Later, I got a negative answer from the book. Nell Noddings emphasized that "care" should include those who care and those who are cared for. As a caring person in the relationship between teachers and students, educators should first take the initiative to understand students, understand their diverse personalities and even abilities, and then teach the cared-for to respond when they are concerned, and of course it is best to respond positively. The interpretation of concern in the book is relatively rational and objective.
? In order to better explain her caring education model, the book has spent a lot of space describing in detail the classification of "caring for self", "caring for people around us", "caring for strangers and people far away from themselves", "caring for animals, plants and the earth", "caring for the material world" and "caring for knowledge". Nell Noddings hopes that teachers can help students know and understand themselves and others, and help or guide students to deal with interpersonal relationships. Regarding materials and knowledge, she believes that schools should provide all kinds of help for students to fully understand materials and life, and guide students to think more widely and master more practical life skills. Nell Noddings encourages educators to lead students to understand the diversity of this world from the perspective of humanism, whether they are thinking people and animals or plants and material worlds that can't think.
? Nell Noddings wants to break away from the traditional curriculum. For example, in biology class, in addition to discussing biological knowledge, teachers should also lead students to discuss geography, history and other related knowledge if students need or are interested. She opposes the singleness of the classroom environment. If Nell Noddings' caring education model is to be carried out, it is absolutely not advisable to measure the success or failure of education through examination results. In fact, she hopes to invite social professionals to participate in educational evaluation in a more relaxed and open way based on the skills mastered by students. This is definitely a new educational evaluation model in No.1 Middle School.
? Nell Noddings, in order to explain her caring education model, started with the current situation of American education at that time. Although China's educational background is different from that of the United States, there are still many things she can learn from.
? At present, the relationship between teachers and students in China is becoming more and more tense. A few days ago, I saw such a news on the Internet: students were not taught in class, and the teacher called the students "crazy!" The student immediately replied, "You are crazy!" The teacher slapped the student angrily, and the student immediately slapped the teacher back. Put the right and wrong in the news here for the time being. What I want to say is that the seriousness of teacher-student relationship in domestic education can be seen from this. I agree with Nell Noddings that "care" should be introduced into school education, so that teachers and students can listen, communicate and communicate, get to know students, discuss their real concerns with them, take the initiative to care for students, and guide students to respond to their concerns in life, thus improving the increasingly indifferent relationship of education in China. Doing Nell Noddings' caring education can avoid perfunctory, single and unilateral ineffective communication between teachers and students, and require students to care for students from study to life!
? Nell Noddings put forward some concrete suggestions and opinions on curriculum setting, which can be used for reference in the process of implementing quality education and innovative education. In terms of curriculum, she advocates diversification, and even suggests that schools offer cooking, tool maintenance and other related courses. In her caring education model, these courses can have the same status as those related to humanistic knowledge. If the school really offers such courses, I think not only students but also teachers will be very interested, because these courses are so close to our lives. Of course, we can't copy this suggestion, but we can get enlightenment from it: curriculum design should be as close as possible to students' lives, school education should originate from life, and finally serve life from students' life experiences. For most children, it is difficult to persist in studying hard for a bright future. Starting from reality, learning according to students' interests and talents, and paying attention to teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, may make students more willing to receive school education, more willing to learn, and more able to support students to go further on the road of learning.
? It is of course unrealistic to replace the current education model with caring model on a large scale. Besides, Nell Noddings' caring education model belongs to a certain degree of educational fantasy, but it is completely feasible to integrate "caring" into daily education and teaching, or it is urgently needed in China's current education. We are eager to have a more inclusive and diverse educational environment and build a more humane educational model that is more suitable for every child's growth.