Reconciling an Ethic of Care with Critical Management Pedagogy

Reconciling Impartial Morality and a Feminist Ethic of Care

The association of women with caring dispositions and thinking has become a persistent theme in recent feminist writing. There are a number of reasons for this. One reason is the impetus that has been provided by the empirical work of Carol Gilligan on women's moral development. The fact that this association is not merely an ideologically or philosophically postulated one, but is argued for on...

Critical Pedagogy: An Overview

Transforming Practice with Older People through an Ethic of Care

This article explores the relevance of deliberative practices framed by feminist care ethics to social work practice with older people. It draws on two connected projects which brought together older people: practitioners and academics. The first was a participatory research project in which the significance of care to well-being in old age emerged. The second was a knowledge exchange project w...

Critical social pedagogy: Colliding with neo-liberal education management

This paper reports research conducted by the Research Centre for Learning and Social Transformation. Our work on workbased learning (WBL) reframes the dualism of higher education and vocational education and training within a critical social pedagogy framework. In implementing WBL we are aware of the epistemological and historical backgrounds of workbased learning and the tensions between compe...

Critical Thinking Skills and Critical Thinking Dispositions in Freshmen and Senior Students of Health Care Management

Introduction: Nowadays, experts introduce critical thinking as the main outcome of higher education and consider teaching "how to think" as the basis for learning. This study compares the critical thinking skills and critical thinking dispositions in freshmen and senior students of health care management. Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was performed on a sample of 60 freshmen ...