Educating for intelligent belief or unbelief / Nel Noddings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Noddings, Nel.

Series:

John Dewey lecture

The John Dewey lecture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion in the public schools--United States.

Religion in the public schools.

Religion--Study and teaching.

United States.

Religion--Study and teaching--United States.

Religious education--United States.

Religious education.

Physical Description:

xvi, 156 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Teachers College Press, [1993]

Summary:

One of the most enduring and controversial issues in American education concerns the place of individual beliefs and moral standards in the classroom. In this classic text, Nel Noddings argues that public schools should address the fundamental questions that teenagers inevitably raise about the nature, value, and meaning of life (and death), and to do so across the curriculum without limiting such existential and metaphysical discussions to separate religion, philosophy, or even history classes. -- Explorations of the existence of a God or gods, and the value and validity of religious belief for societies or individuals, she writes "whether they are initiated by students or teachers, should be part of the free exchange of human concerns--a way in which people share their awe, doubts, fears, hopes, knowledge, and ignorance." Such basic human concerns, Noddings maintains, are relevant to nearly every subject and should be both non-coercive and free from academic evaluation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-152) and index.

ISBN:

0807732710

OCLC:

27894547