critical theory and moral theory in education henry giroux and nel noddings

This paper makes two contributions .first explaining about two theories; critical and the moral theory known as ' the ethics of care'. second , theorists and great educators who are pioneers and best known in these theories are introduced. henry giroux is an american and canadian scholar and cultural critic. one of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the united states and nel noddings who developed the idea of care as a feminine ethic, and applied it to the practice of moral education. critical theory has a narrow and a broad meaning in philosophy and in the history of the social sciences. in both the broad and the narrow senses, however, a critical theory provides the descriptive and normative bases for social inquiry aimed at decreasing domination and increasing freedom in all their forms. critical pedagogy poses a variety of important counterlogics to the positivistic, a historical, and depoliticized analysis employed by both liberal and conservative critics of schooling--an analysis all too readily visible in the training programs in the colleges of education .it fundamentally concerned with the centrality of politics and power in our understanding of how schools work, critical theorists have produced work centering on the political economy of schooling, the state and education, the representation of texts, and the construction of student subjectivity.in the ethics of care implies that there is moral significance in the fundamental elements of relationships and dependencies in human life.primarily, i determine concepts . after determining concepts, i would consider their claims and themes . however, this topic is a collection of main resources and textbooks in critical and moral theory in the context of education. i hope i would be successful to represent, develop and understand this subject and explain it properly.