The theory of caring for moral education is an influential moral education theory in the west, which especially emphasizes the role of emotion in school moral education and advocates that moral education should focus on cultivating students to learn to care and understand. The basic moral thought of this theory is of great practical significance to moral education in schools in China.

A very influential moral education model advocated by the famous female educator Noddings and others. Starting from caring is the basic need of human beings, this model mainly emphasizes the role of emotion in moral education, holds that school moral education should be centered on emotion, advocates organizing education with caring as the core, and firmly believes that caring for teenagers is the starting point of moral education.

The considerate moral education model puts emotion first in moral education, and advocates that school moral education is centered on emotion, and the starting point and destination of moral education is to cultivate students to learn to care and understand.