An Ethic of Care in Higher Education: Well-Being and Learning
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Richard P. Keeling
Abstract
At the heart of commitments to student success is a progressive concept of the relationship between students and institutions of higher education that embraces shared responsibility for the quality and outcomes of learning-and, therefore, for students’ ability, capacity, and readiness to learn. Since learning is a complex activity of the whole person, and well-being-broadly defined-is a major determinant of students’ readiness to learn, advancing student success requires attention to students as whole people, and to their individual and collective well-being. Attention to students as whole people, a shared responsibility for learning, and responsiveness to students’ well being, taken together, reflect the existence and influence of an underlying ethic of care.
© 2014 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
Articles in the same Issue
- Invited Feature Article
- An Ethic of Care in Higher Education: Well-Being and Learning
- Peer Reviewed Article
- Predictors of College Students Engaging in Social Change Behaviors
- How Student Affairs Professionals Learn to Advocate: A Phenomenological Study
- Best Practices
- Service, Dialogue, and Reflection as Foundational Elements in a Living Learning Community
- Opinions and Perspectives
- More Than Winning: When Students Become Teachers of Civic Engagement
- Interfaith Cooperation
- Better Together: Considering Student Interfaith Leadership and Social Change
- What They’re Reading
- Faithiest: How an Atheist Found Common Ground With the Religious
- Ethical Issues on Campus
- Naming Our Ignorance in Service to Our Diversity Commitment
Articles in the same Issue
- Invited Feature Article
- An Ethic of Care in Higher Education: Well-Being and Learning
- Peer Reviewed Article
- Predictors of College Students Engaging in Social Change Behaviors
- How Student Affairs Professionals Learn to Advocate: A Phenomenological Study
- Best Practices
- Service, Dialogue, and Reflection as Foundational Elements in a Living Learning Community
- Opinions and Perspectives
- More Than Winning: When Students Become Teachers of Civic Engagement
- Interfaith Cooperation
- Better Together: Considering Student Interfaith Leadership and Social Change
- What They’re Reading
- Faithiest: How an Atheist Found Common Ground With the Religious
- Ethical Issues on Campus
- Naming Our Ignorance in Service to Our Diversity Commitment
