The challenge to care in schools
Subtitle: an alternative approach to education
By: Nel Noddings.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Advances in contemporary educational thought series
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
Subjects: Moral education -- United States.; Teacher-student relationships -- United States.; Parent and child -- United States.
Description: Noddings once again envisions a school system built on the idea that different people have different strengths, and that these strengths should be cultivated in an environment of caring, not of competition. She suggests that if we make the responsiveness characteristic of caring more basic than accountability, we can accommodate both traditional and progressive preferences in one school system to the benefit of all ... especially the children. Chapters address the practical and theoretical questions involved in organizing traditional and nontraditional areas of study around themes of care. Introductory chapters focus on caring in general and on the problems of liberal education, while the final chapter offers sound advice for implementing a caring curriculum in our schools. --from publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-186) and index.