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A review by claudiaswisher
The Challenge to Care in Schools: An Alternative Approach to Education by Nel Noddings
4.0
I appreciated Noddings's honesty about the importance of relationships in life, and especially in teaching. Her ideas for a radical new curriculum, focused on the 'ethics of caring' will have me reflecting for some time...much of it I had to read and think, "Yes, but..." because she's forgotten the horrible constraints under which public schools operate, but her message was passionate and heart-felt.
I especially liked her questions about a liberal education, and all those isolated 'facts' every educated person ought to know -- those facts that subject specialists complain that students don't know. She challenges us as teachers to be certain WE know those ever-so-important facts. Every teacher should know math and history and literary analysis IF every student should. I loved that idea.
I especially liked her questions about a liberal education, and all those isolated 'facts' every educated person ought to know -- those facts that subject specialists complain that students don't know. She challenges us as teachers to be certain WE know those ever-so-important facts. Every teacher should know math and history and literary analysis IF every student should. I loved that idea.