일상적 대화의 도덕교육적 함의

The Implications of Ordinary Conversation for Moral Education

The purpose of this study is to investigate the implications of ordinary conversation for moral education. N. Noddings has presented for exploring a range of possible uses of conversation in moral education: the highly formal conversation of discourse ethics, the so-called “immortal conversation”, and a form of ordinary conversation between adult and children. Conversation of the sort that keep concern for one's partner paramount and still seek the better way are usually voluntary conversation between people who have some affection for one another. That may be the key and the reason that ordinary conversation of a certain kind is so valuable in moral education. When people have loving regard for one another, they can engage in constructive conflict, although it is by no means easy. To establish the relation in which people may come to have positive regard for one another, we need to engage in conversation about shared interests and everyday events. We may well learn more about the value and the strategies of such conversation by studying the different voice as it speak in sensitive interactions. Once the relation is established, when it has come unthinkable to do violence to this other with whom we disagree, we may be able to address the conflict itself. A compromise may be reached, and the force of the better argument may be acknowledged. Nevertheless, sometimes there will be no resolution. However, if they maintain their regard and remain pledged to do one another no harm, a great moral victory has been won. We can supplement ordinary conversation with healthy religious instruction, with powerful and sensitive intellectual training, with all sorts of common sense parenting techniques and we still cannot demand guarantees. Instead we must place our bets somewhere and remain in relations of care and trust with our children. We must have faith in the outcome.