Teacher's Caring

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Teacher’s Caring and Its Impact on Learners’ Learning Abstract Teacher’s caring plays a significant role in the present education system. In ancient China, though teachers owned the absolute authority, they kept mutual relationship with their learners. This kind of good relationship finally enhances emotional understanding between teacher and learners. Teachers have the responsibility to take the nature of their learners. This study aims to investigate teacher’s caring and its impact on learners’ learning. What I am recommending is that teaching be redesigned so that caring has a chance to be initiated in the one-caring and completed in the cared-for. Key words teacher’s caring, pedagogical caring, motivation, autonomy 1. Introduction The one-caring as teacher is not necessarily permissive. She does not abstain from leading the student, or persuading him, or coaxing him toward an examination of school subjects. But she recognizes that, in the long run, he will learn what he pleases. We may force him to respond in specified ways, but what he will make his own and eventually apply effectively is that which he finds significant for his own life. This recognition does not reduce either the teacher’s power or her responsibility. The teacher’s power is awesome. It is she who presents the “effective world” to the student. The teacher, as one-caring, meets the student directly but not equally. Buber says that the teacher is capable of “inclusion” and this term seems to describe accurately what the one-caring does in trying to teach the cared-for. The one-caring is engrossed in the cared-for and undergoes a motivational displacement toward the projects of the cared-for. It means, rather, that one-caring receives the other, for the interval of caring, completely and nonselectively. This paper focuses on the teachers’ caring and its impact on learners. The
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