One of the most often cited criticisms in education is for putting too much emphasis on academic achievement of students, thus diverting attention from other important dimensions in schooling, such as caring teacher-student relations. Recently, educators have raised a call to recognize the importance of reconceptualization of schooling and to put serious efforts on the practice of ethic of caring in order to meet the problems we have in school today and to prepare students well for the world of work. / This study examined how students perceive a school climate as caring or non-caring from the perspective of the attitudes and behaviors of teachers and principal. It also explored the perceptional difference of caring manners among the groups of students, teachers, and administrative personnel. Determining the direction and magnitude of the relationships between the students' perceptions of the teacher and principals as caring or non-caring and their learning outcomes were two other main issues of the present study. / The Florida State University School at Florida State University was selected as a target site. A total of 246 high school students, 33 high school teachers and 4 administrative personnel were involved in the study. The study incorporated methods of triangulation in an effort to eliminate bias. / No substantial differences were found in the perception of caring manners when teachers and students were compared. However, the findings indicated that teachers and administrative personnel perceive the school climate, self-images, and their caring manners a lot more positively than the students actually perceive. Substantial differences were found among students in the perception of caring manners depending upon their academic achievement level. / Finally, the students' perceptions of their teachers' and principal's caring attitude and manners were found to have significant positive correlation with the learning outcomes; self-perception of satisfaction, belonging, efficacy, academic ability, and moral maturity. Students' self-perception of satisfaction was most highly correlated. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-02, Section: A, page: 0377. / Major Professor: Hollie B. Thomas. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1993.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76838 |
| Contributors | Lee, Pung-Kil., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 354 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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