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The Challenge to Care in Schools. An Alternative Approach to Education.

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Description for The Challenge to Care in Schools. An Alternative Approach to Education. Paperback. In this second edition of her educational text, Noddings 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. Series: Advances in Contemporary Educational Thought S. Num Pages: 219 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JNK; JNLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 313.

After a decade of educational reforms, The Challenge to Care in Schools is even more relevant now than when it was first published. In her new Introduction, Nel Noddings revisits her seminal book and places care as central to current debates on standardization, accountability, privatization, and the continuous struggle between traditional and progressive methods of education. Rather then forcing one side to yield to the other, this book advocates an alternative “responsive system” that will allow the best ideas to flourish.

In the Second Edition, Noddings once again envisions a school system built on the idea that different people ... Read more

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.

Praise for the First Edition!

"A welcome addition to the often fragmented discussion of what children need and what school and education should be."

—Harvard Educational Review

"I recommend this book to all concerned about education, personally and/or professionally."

Journal of Moral Education

"In the morass of school reform that calls for such changes as national standards, improved assessments, and new ways of organizing schooling, Noddings provides lucid thinking about the priorities we ought to consider."

Teachers College Record

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Teachers' College Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780807746097
SKU
V9780807746097
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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.

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