An Analysis and Critique of the Educational-Philosophical Viewpoints of Noddings from the Perspective of Islamic Education

Using an analytical and documentary method, the present study seeks to analyze and criticize the educational viewpoints of Noddings from the perspective of Islamic education. The results show that the most important philosophical foundations of Noddings include emotionalism, existentialism, phenomenology and feminism. Educational objectives include a combination of educational experiences and values such as love of learning, kindness, self-respect and training democratic citizens. To Noddings, fundamentalism is not accepted in compassion and the educational methods that advocate modeling, dialogue, and action can be verified. Despite the good views that exist in the philosophical and educational ideas of Nel Noddings, based on Islamic education, her educational ideas have some weaknesses including disregard for the external sources of sanctity in educational objectives, feminism in education, regarding affection as the basic criterion for education, neglecting the other effective tools in education, relativism, neglecting the role of standards and principles in education, neglecting the internal factors in education, following pragmatism as the basis for her ideas , neglecting the substantial role of teacher in the teaching-learning process and the role of punishment in education.