Drama and the Learner

Although teaching is increasingly recognised as extremely complex work, any useful analysis of education will have the learner firmly at its centre. Recently many researchers have returned to the position that teaching is a moral enterprise, and believe that teachers should focus primarily on promoting the welfare of the learners and of the wider society. Noddings argues that every human encounter is a potentially 'caring occasion". Speaking of the nurse-patient relationship, but equally true of teacherstudent, she says that the very moment they meet is important: