Exploration of Integrating Caring and Education in Early Childhood: Based on Onto-epistemological Evolution on Caring

Abstract

This study academically explores the recent issue of integrating of caring with early education in terms of epistemological evolution for caring. The integration of early education and caring is significant and urgent issue that impact not only on young children but also many stakeholders in early education. The integrating caring and education have been generally understood as feeding and raring which exclusively focused on physical caring on weak people such as young children. However, this study attempted to deconstruct this concept of physical care and reconstruct that meaning of caring into new epistemological caring. In this study epistemology of caring particularly highlight on the human’s thinking and making judgement about the things with mind of caring about. With academical exploration that review adequate philosophy of caring including feminism and post-humanism, etc. Then this study tried to introduce many cases of children’s epistemological perception of caring in the class which ultimately used to build of evidence to persuade those think caring only of physical care. In conclusion, this study suggests the paradigm shift of integrating care-edu into caring based curriculum which means caring should be the all matters of only education over the limited concept of physical care.