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Christine Fisher – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Interpersonal relationships between teachers and students built within a learning context have a significant influence on the development of learners' social and emotional life. Higher levels of engagement, attachment, and motivation are common among students who strongly connect with their teachers. This study aimed to obtain a deeper…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Students, Teacher Student Relationship, Caring
Hansen, David T. – Teachers College Press, 2021
In this sequel to his internationally acclaimed classic, "The Call to Teach," David Hansen revisits the idea of teaching as a calling in light of contemporary expectations in education. "Reimagining the Call to Teach" brings to life an ethical approach to teaching that is informed by an understanding of teaching's great…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Ethics, Caring, Student Development
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Kim, Jeong-Hee; Morrison, Jennifer A.; Ramzinski, Elaine – Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 2019
The development of self is an important part of formal education, and related to the notion of self is the development of "Bildung," or cultivation of the self. "Bildung" has been an integral part of curriculum theory in the United States. However, despite many theoretical debates on "Bildung" in the literature, there…
Descriptors: Student Development, Self Concept, Teaching Methods, Graduate Students
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Lee, Queenie A. Y.; Yuen, Mantak – Pastoral Care in Education, 2019
This article highlights findings from a case study research investigating factors that foster the academic achievement of community college students in Hong Kong. Data was collected from in-depth interviews with six community college students in a middle-sized, self-funded community college. The findings illustrate nuanced facets of teacher care…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Community Colleges
McComb, Sean – Educational Horizons, 2015
The author, the 2014 National Teacher of the Year, discusses why it's important to create a caring classroom culture and shares his strategies for doing so.
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Caring, Teacher Role, Teamwork
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Wardman, Natasha Penelope – Global Studies of Childhood, 2016
The notion of responsibility makes a significant appearance in a range of Westernised education policy documents concerned with student conduct, welfare and values. While policies may differ in the extent to which responsibility is explicitly defined or generally assumed, most seem to emphasise an ideal social subject who is accountable,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Political Attitudes, Educational Policy
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McCuaig, Louise; Öhman, Marie; Wright, Jan – Sport, Education and Society, 2013
Drawing on research conducted in Australian Health' and Physical Education (HPE) and Swedish Physical Education and Health (PEH), this paper demonstrates the analytic possibilities of Foucault's notion of pastoral power to reveal the moral and ethical work conducted by HPE/PEH teachers in producing healthy active citizens. We use the pastoral…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Ethical Instruction, Ethics, Physical Education Teachers
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Benson, Jeffrey – Educational Leadership, 2012
One hundred repetitions--100 "useful" repetitions. This notion has guided the author's work in alternative education programs for almost 20 years, dealing with the most challenging students, from addicts to conduct-disordered adolescents to traumatized 5th graders. There are no magic tricks. The role of educators is to align with the healthy…
Descriptors: Caring, Nontraditional Education, Teacher Role, Grade 5