I am developing a group intervention strategy to assist 10 year old's dealing with relational aggression in an elementary school setting. I plan to use the philosophy of caring model advanced by Noddings, Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education.
I feel that the intervention strategy group to assist 10 year old's is very interesting and I would suggest that whatever you are planning on the issue is something new and of new exploration and knowledge. It is great to find out and expose the knowledge to the public.
I have worked to integrate Noddings' pragmatic feminism as a supplement to masculinist moral (education) theory and applied ethics for over a decade in postsecondary education classrooms--i.e. both in the community college and university undergraduate adult settings.
A sound Action Research design, involving Participants in Narrative Exchange (cf. Tilmann Habermas) or reflective dialogue and "conversation" at the Primary Grade-levels would make an important contribution to the existing data in a study of an applied ethics of care.
But one suggestion I would make as I understand Noddings' standpoint would be to critically revise the oxymoron "relational aggression." The core notion of the Care Ethic is Relation: "Relations, not individuals, are ontologically basic...(Caring, 2003, p. xiii). The "certain kind of relation," that Noddings advocates is never "aggression." Which as you know is later in the book distinguished from the "toughness" of care which accomodates protective "violence" -- a defense of a mother indicted and convicted for killing a sexually abusive father of their young children.
Of course, you probably are also aware, the qualitative and empirical weaknesses in published studies of "microaggressions" rely upon an interpretative hermeneutics that is problematic. The data sets grounding those interpretations give pause to my read on your RQ frame-metaphor "relational aggression."
But given my maturing human beings perview, I encourage you to refine the Design Methodology and will follow your Project's results as a meaningful moral development educational intervention.
All the Best as you Go Ahead!
Josef
Thanks I appreciate you comments. I especially like the idea of impact-fulness on moral development. I will look into this.
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