The Challenge To Care In Schools: An Alternative Approach To Education

by Noddings, Nel; Soltis, Jonas

• ISBN13: 9780807746097
• ISBN10: 0807746096
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-30
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

Summary

Noddings insists "that our aim should be to encourage the growth of competent, caring, loving, and lovable persons, " a moral priority that our educational system ignores. She argues that liberal education dictates what areas of pedagogy are socially acceptable -- ignoring a student's wider range of abilities. Contrarily, it is precisely the competence for caring, Noddings posits, that will prepare our students for the environment of the school, the world of work, the realm of ideas, and ultimately, for each other.

Author Biography

Nel Noddings is Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education Emerita at Stanford University.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	xiii
1. Shallow Educational Response to Deep Social Change	1	(14)
2. Caring	15	(13)
3. Beyond the Disciplines: A Critique of Liberal Education	28	(16)
4. An Alternative Vision	44	(19)
5. Caring and Continuity	63	(11)
6. Caring for Self	74	(17)
7. Caring in the Inner Circle	91	(19)
8. Caring for Strangers and Distant Others	110	(16)
9. Caring for Animals, Plants, and the Earth	126	(13)
10. Caring for the Human-Made World	139	(11)
11. Caring for Ideas	150	(23)
12. Getting Started in Schools	173	(8)
References	181	(6)
Index	187	(6)
About the Author	193