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Educating Moral People: A Caring Alternative to Character Education
Nel Noddings
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Description for Educating Moral People: A Caring Alternative to Character Education
Paperback. These essays examine alternatives to prevailing models of character education. Covering both stories in the classroom and controversial issues in education and care ethics, it examines how moral education might be infused into the curriculum and calls for greater co-operation across fields. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: JNA; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 180 x 163 x 13. Weight in Grams: 277.
In this collection of essential essays, Nel Noddings examines alternatives to prevailing models of character education—a sympathetic approach based on an ethic of care. Covering both stories in the classroom and controversial issues in education, Noddings describes the similarities and differences between character education and care ethics…examines how moral education might be infused throughout the curriculum…and calls for greater cooperation across fields and more attention to the practical problems of everyday teaching.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Teachers College Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780807741689
SKU
V9780807741689
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Nel Noddings
Nel Noddings is Lee Jacks Professor of Education, Emerita, at Stanford University. Her books include Education and Democracy in the 21st Century, When School Reform Goes Wrong, The Challenge to Care in Schools, Educating Citizens for Global Awareness, Educating for Intelligent Belief or Unbelief, and Educating Moral People.
Reviews for Educating Moral People: A Caring Alternative to Character Education
Nel Noddings provides a powerful educational answer to the classic dilemma of narrowing the gap between moral and ethical principle and human behavior. She moves caring from an admirable trait of individual character to a necessary cultural condition
- 'an environment in which moral life can flourish.'" - John I. Goodlad, President, Institute for Educational Inquiry; ""This is a revolutionary ... Read more
- 'an environment in which moral life can flourish.'" - John I. Goodlad, President, Institute for Educational Inquiry; ""This is a revolutionary ... Read more