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  • The Challenge to Care in Schools

    by Nel Noddings ...
    Series series Advances in Contemporary Educational Thought Series
    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 ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Philosophy of Education

    by Nel Noddings ...
    The first edition of Nel Noddings' Philosophy of Education was acclaimed as the 'best overview in the field' by the journal Teaching Philosophy and predicted to 'become the standard textbook in philosophy of education' by Educational Theory. This classic text, originally designed to give the education student a comprehensive look at philosophical thought in relation to teaching, learning, research ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Teaching Controversial Issues

    The Case for Critical Thinking and Moral Commitment in the Classroom

    by Nel Noddings, Laurie Brooks ...
    In this book, eminent educational philosopher Nel Noddings and daughter Laurie Brooks explain how teachers can foster critical thinking through the exploration of controversial issues. The emphasis is on the use of critical thinking to understand and collaborate, not simply to win arguments. The authors describe how critical thinking that encourages dialogue across the school disciplines and ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Education and Democracy in the 21st Century

    by Nel Noddings ...
    Eminent educational philosopher Nel Noddings draws on John Dewey’s foundational work to reimagine education’s aims and curriculum for the 21st century. Noddings looks at education as a multi-aim enterprise in which schools must address needs in all three domains of life: home and family, occupational, and civic. She raises critical questions about the current enthusiasm for standardization, the ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Peace Education

    How We Come to Love and Hate War

    by Nel Noddings ...
    There is a huge volume of work on war and its causes, most of which treats its political and economic roots. In Peace Education: How We Come to Love and Hate War, Nel Noddings explores the psychological factors that support war: nationalism, hatred, delight in spectacles, masculinity, religious extremism and the search for existential meaning. She argues that while schools can do little to reduce ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Socializing Care

    Feminist Ethics and Public Issues

    by Joan Tronto, Nel Noddings, Eloise Buker, Selma Sevenhuijsen, Vivienne Bozalek, Amanda Gouws, Marie Minnaar-Mcdonald, Deborah Little, Fiona Robinson, Judith Stadtman Tucker, Cheryl Brandsen, Margaret Urban Walker ...
    Series series Feminist Constructions
    Criticism is often levied that care ethics is too narrow in scope and fails to extend to issues of social justice. Socializing Care attempts to dispel that criticism. Contributors to the volume demonstrate how the ethics of care factors into a variety of social policies and institutions, and can indeed be useful in thinking about a number of different social problems. Divided into two sections, ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • A Richer, Brighter Vision for American High Schools

    by Nel Noddings ...
    In today's high schools, education is often reduced to a means of achieving financial security, leading to an overemphasis on quantifiable measures of performance. This approach encourages academically talented students to focus on test scores and rankings rather than intellectual enrichment, and discourages students with non-academic talents from pursuing them. A Richer, Brighter Vision for ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • Collateral Damage

    How High-Stakes Testing Corrupts America's Schools

    by Sharon L. Nichols, David C. Berliner ...
    Drawing on their extensive research, Nichols and Berliner document and categorize the ways that high-stakes testing threatens the purposes and ideals of the American education system.For more than a decade, the debate over high-stakes testing has dominated the field of education. This passionate and provocative book provides a fresh perspective on the issue and powerful ammunition for opponents of ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Caring

    A Relational Approach to Ethics and Moral Education

    by Nel Noddings ...
    With numerous examples to supplement her rich theoretical discussion, Nel Noddings builds a compelling philosophical argument for an ethics based on natural caring, as in the care of a mother for her child.In Caring—now updated with a new preface and afterword reflecting on the ongoing relevance of the subject matter—the author provides a wide-ranging consideration of whether organizations, which ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Palgrave International Handbook of Alternative Education

    Edited by Helen E. Lees, Nel Noddings ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This state-of-the-art, comprehensive Handbook fully explores the field of alternative education on an international scale. Alternatives to mainstream schooling and education are becoming increasingly recognised as pertinent and urgent for better understanding what really works in successfully educating children and adults today, especially in light of the increased performance driven and ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Educating for Intelligent Belief or Unbelief

    by Nel Noddings ...
    Series series John Dewey Lecture Series
    One of the most enduring and controversial issues in American education concerns the place of individual beliefs and moral standards in the classroom. Noddings argues that public schools should address the fundamental questions that teenagers inevitably rasie about the nature, value and meaning of life (and death), and to do so across the curriculum without limiting such existential and ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • When School Reform Goes Wrong

    by Nel Noddings ...
    In this much-needed volume, Nel Noddings uses her extensive experience at every level of schooling to challenge the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Noddings invites readers to think critically about the ideas underlying NCLB, the reform movement that shaped it, and the processes it has put into play. She considers such questions as, Is money the answer to raising test scores? Are failing schools ... Read more

    $21.89 USD