Educating Moral People by Nel Noddings
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.
Nel Noddings provides a powerful educational answer to the classic dilemma of narrowing the gap between moral and ethical principle and human behaviorShe 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 book, and everyone concerned with issues of moral education had better read it. Noddings' views are strong and original but carefully thought through and expressed with precision. A spirited and original contribution!"" - John W. Gardner, former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare; ""With these wonderfully provocative essays, Nel Noddings confirms her status as one of our most important educational theorists. She thinks deeply and writes clearly about issues that are both timely, given the current popularity of character education, and timeless, given her invigorating way of connecting classroom practice to the big questions of human life."" - Alfie Kohn, author of The Schools Our Children Deserve
Noddings received a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physical science from Montclair State College in New Jersey, a masters degree in mathematics from Rutgers University, and a Ph.D. in education from the Stanford Graduate School of Education. Nel Noddings worked in many areas of the education system. She spent seventeen years as an elementary and high school mathematics teacher and school administrator, before earning her PhD and beginning work as an academic in the fields of philosophy of education, theory of education and ethics, specifically moral education and ethics of care. She became a member of the Stanford faculty in 1977, and was the Jacks Professor of Child Education from 1992 until 1998. While at Stanford University she received awards for teaching excellence in 1981, 1982 and 1997, and was the associate dean or acting dean of the School of Education for four years. After leaving Stanford University, she held positions at Columbia University and Colgate University. She is past president of the Philosophy of Education Society and the John Dewey Society. In 2002-2003 she held the John W. Porter Chair in Urban Education at Eastern Michigan University. She has been Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education, Emerita, at Stanford University since she retired in 1998.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780807741689 |
| ISBN 10 | 080774168X |
| Title | Educating Moral People |
| Author | Nel Noddings |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Teachers' College Press |
| Year published | 2002-01-31 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
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