Pusong Mamon: Nel Noddings's Care Ethics in the Filipino Educational Setting

• Main Author: Dela Cruz, Noelle Leslie
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Nel Noddings; pusong mamon; care ethics; justice; academic dishonesty
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/budhi/vol17/iss3/1; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/budhi/article/1318/viewcontent/Budhi_2017.3_201_20Article_20__20Dela_20Cruz.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This paper evaluates Nel Noddings’s view of moral education in the context of teaching in a Philippine university. It first presents the key aspects of Noddings’s ethical theory, identifying her three strategic moves as follows: the dissolution of the public/private split, the replacement of justice-based punishment system with a caring system, and the promotion of care work as the core of education itself. Through a discussion of two cases of academic dishonesty, the author assesses the merits of these strategies and recommends a re-conceptualization both of care ethics and the existing educational paradigm.