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Care In Context: Constructing A Theory Of Care In One Fifth Grade Classroom, Emily J. Wingate
Care In Context: Constructing A Theory Of Care In One Fifth Grade Classroom, Emily J. Wingate
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
With a culmination of evidence suggesting the perception of caring relationships is associated with students' well-being (Natvig, Albrektsen, & Qvarnstrøm, 2003; Siddall, Huebner, & Jiang, 2013; Suldo, Friedrich, White, Farmer, Minch, & Michalowski, 2009), there is a need to better understand the ways in which care operates in the classroom. Further, there is a need to move beyond a prescription of caring behaviors to investigate the ways in which care, control, and conflict interact to impact classroom relationships. In the current study, I took a mini-ethnographic case study approach to investigate the concept of care within one fifth grade classroom. …