순수증여로서 돌봄에 대한 교육학적 고찰

Abstract

Caring is an important issue of education in a society that aims for a welfare state. The education world has prepared care policies for infants, elementary and secondary schools, and uses them as an outlet for the era of low birth rates. However, despite high social interest, the understanding of care tends to remain in the dimension of 'providing services'. In this paper, I consider the relationship between 'caregiver = caretaker' of Nel Noddins, a pioneer of caring theory, to examine the characteristics of caring relationships through reciprocity, a concept that is often confused with services. In reciprocity, human relationships are understood from the perspective of exchange, which is likely to be confused with an exchange economy that often pursues exchange and satisfaction. In order to comprehensively approach and view this problem, it is switched to the problem of exchange and gift theory that the post-structuralist philosophy was interested in and sheds new light. When someone gives a gift, the recipient follows the pattern of exchange gifts that are appreciated and returned later. On the other hand, it seems impossible to give a pure gift without wishing for return, but in this study, to dismantle the exchange economy thinking by positioning teaching-learning, caring-care taking that occurs in schools as a pure gift, first, it was analyzed focusing on the state of commitment of the caregiver as a state of pure gift, and second, it was reasoned that caring was placed in a larger virtuous cycle of gift. Although caring belongs to the realm of pure gift, it is easy to be recovered by gift exchange or currency exchange, and is often damaged due to its nature. Care is clearly being taken in various contexts, but it is not caring in itself. Gifts occur where care takes place. The topic of pure gift needs to continue to be questioned as the central theme of educational care theory.