Dr. Nel Noddings, Jacks Professor Emerita of Child Education at Stanford University, will deliver the keynote address at California State University, Fresno’s 26th annual Conference on Character and Civic Education in downtown Fresno on April 9.
The daylong conference, sponsored by the Kremen School of Education and Human Development at Fresno State, will run from 8 a.m. to 3:30 pm. at the Fresno Convention Center Exhibit Hall Hall (M and Inyo streets). The agenda includes workshops on professional ethics and professional decision-making.
Teachers of the year from Fresno and Kings counties also will be recognized as will 23 San Joaquin Valley elementary schools that have shown exemplary character.
The conference provides Fresno State and Fresno Pacific University student teachers with a important concepts related to ethical implications of professional educators, said Jane Moosoolian, a curriculum and instruction professor in the Kremen School. She is the conference co-coordinator with Dr. Jacques Benninga.
Noddings will speak at 8:20 a.m. about her work on the significance of the caring relationship as an educational goal and foundational aspect of education.
She joined the Stanford faculty in 1977 and was the Jacks Professor of Child Education from 1992 until 1998.
She has written 16 books, including “Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education,” “Educating for Intelligent Belief or Unbelief” and “Educating Moral People.” Noddings also is the author of more than 200 articles and chapters on topics ranging from the ethics of care to mathematical problem solving. At Stanford she received the Award for Teaching Excellence three times.
This is the longest running character education conference in the U.S., said Moosoolian.
For more information contact, Moosoolian at 559.278.0115 or janem@csufresno.edu, or Benninga at 559.278.0253 orjackb@csufresno.edu.
(University Communications news intern Amanda Fine contributed to this copy)
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