Carol Gilligan

Women’s moral development

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• What does stand out to you from her biography?

Gilligan v/s Kohlberg• She suggested that Kohlberg's theories were

biased against women, as only males were used in his studies. By listening to women's experiences, Gilligan offered that a morality of care can serve in the place of the morality of justice and rights espoused by Kohlberg.

In a different voice

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG3_ZP6Drn0&playnext=1&list=PL02C7DDE451613CB7&feature=results_main

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvZGkqZtueM&feature=relmfu

Thoughts from the book

Emotional girl v/s rational boy

• Men see danger in connection• Women see danger in competence

Care(mercy) v/s justice

• Men tend to do things on their own, individualistic trend.

• Protection (masculine care), single minded• Working in groups, socializing, collaboration• Nurture (feminine care) multitasking

Impact in education

• How has this theory influenced the educational system?

• “the ideal of care is thus an activity of relationship, of seeing and responding to need, taking care of the world by sustaining the web of connection so that no one is left alone”

Problems?

References

• http://www.faculty.umb.edu/lawrence_blum/publications/publications/A06.pdf

• http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/gilligan.html

• http://collegestudentdeveltheory.blogspot.com/2010/09/gilligans-theory-of-womens-moral.html

• http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/iie/v3n1/men.html