I can't imaging proponents of a 'pedagogy of care' being comfortable with a mechanism for measuring care in teaching, but at the same time, it seems there ought to be a mechanism for saying whether someone is a caring teacher or not. A conundrum I won't try to solve here. Anyhow, this article asserts that " concluded that teachers' caring behavior mainly includes three dimensions: Conscientiousness, support, and inclusiveness." Can these be measured? This article addresses the question in a Chinese cultural context; "teachers' caring behavior and students' perceptions of caring are different due to the differences between Chinese and Western cultures. In Chinese society, the concept and expectation of teacher care are more likely to be paternalistic." It's a smallish study (n=365 at most). The authors develop a scale, test the scale, then apply the scale. The main lesson (as I draw it) is that it's not a simple subject; care is complex, and whether it is perceived is impacted by a large number of factors.
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