Author: Nel Nodding
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: policy, social, caring, home, starting
Number of Pages: 366
Published: 2002-01-07
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0520230264
ISBN-13: 9780520230262

Nel Noddings, one of the central figures in the contemporary discussion of ethics and moral education, argues that caring--a way of life learned at home--can be extended into a theory that guides social policy. Tackling issues such as capital punishment, drug treatment, homelessness, mental illness, and abortion, Noddings inverts traditional philosophical priorities to show how an ethic of care can have profound and compelling implications for social and political thought. Instead of beginning with an ideal state and then describing a role for home and family, this book starts with an ideal ho

Author: Nel Nodding
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: education, happiness
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 2003-07-07
List price: $41.99
ISBN-10: 0521807638
ISBN-13: 9780521807630

When parents are asked what they want for their children, they usually answer that they want their children to be happy. Why, then, is happiness rarely mentioned as a goal of education? This book explores what we might teach if we were to take happiness seriously as a goal of education. It asks, first, what it means to be happy and, second, how we can help children to understand it. It notes that we have to develop a capacity for unhappiness and a willingness to alleviate the suffering of others to be truly happy. Criticizing our current almost exclusive emphasis on economic well-being and ple