Published: 2018-04-06

Care, concern, thoughtfulness : non-specific research subjects of general pedagogics

Alicja Żywczok
Pedagogical Forum
Section: Topic
https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2018.1.08

Abstract

Referring to the current status of knowledge in the field of pedagogics and related sciences (especially philosophy, psychology, medicine, political sciences, theology), the author emphasizes the significance of interdisciplinary category of care (and semantically related terms such as “concern”, “taking care”, “consideration”, “thoughtfulness”) for the development of general pedagogics as a pedagogical sub-discipline. Apart from explaining the lexical differences and indicating differences between the aforementioned terms, the author also analyzes the scientific understanding of care (as, among others: a moral norm and obligation, social interaction, disposition, attitude) and the relationship between care and other moral qualities. The author also shows the conditions of the process of upbringing a thoughtful human being and stages of interiorization of the analyzed quality. Hermeneutic methods seem justified in order to comprehensively cognize the quality of care.

Keywords:

care, concern, taking care, consideration, obligation, protective attitude, upbringing process, subject of research

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Żywczok, A. (2018). Care, concern, thoughtfulness : non-specific research subjects of general pedagogics. Pedagogical Forum, 8(1), 105–118. https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2018.1.08

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