Nel Noddings, Ph.D., is an American philosopher and educational researcher in the field of care ethics, which she pioneered. She has enjoyed a long career in education, beginning in 1949, as a teacher and later a school administrator and college professor. Noddings is the Jacks Professor Emerita of Child Education at Stanford University. She is a mother of 10 children, and an author of 20 books and over 200 articles and chapters. The emergence of care ethics as a distinct theory is often attributed to Carol Gilligan, author of “In a Different Voice” (1982) and Nel Noddings, author of “Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Education,” (1984) who were the first to research and write about care. Since that time, they have been joined by many scholars and philosophers as the work of care ethics has spread to include the study of feminist theory, gender studies, economics, theories of justice and morality, educational philosophy, welfare and social reform.