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Happiness and Education Book

Paperback. Pub Date: December 2004 Pages: 326 in Publisher: Camidge University Press 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 intensive with rarely for mentioned as an aim of education This book explores what we might teach if we were to take happiness seriously as an aim of education. It asks. first. what it means to be happy and. second. how we can help children to understand what happiness is. It notes that. to be truly happy. we have to develop a capacity for unhappiness and a willingness to alleviate the suffering of others. Criticizing the present almost exclusive emphasis on economic well-being and pleasure. it discusses the contributions of making a home. parenting . cherishing a place. development of character. interpersonal growth. finding work that one loves. and p...Read More

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  • Blackwell

    This book explores what we might teach if we take happiness seriously as an aim of education. 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...

  • Foyles

    Explores what we might teach if we take happiness seriously as an aim of education.

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    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 pleasure, Nel Noddings discusses the contributions of making a home, parenting, cherishing a place, the development of character, interpersonal growth, finding work that one loves, and participating in a democratic way of life. Finally, she explores ways in which to make schools and classrooms cheerful places. Nell Noddings is Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education, Emerita, at Stanford University. She is past president of the Philosophy of Education Society and of the John Dewey Society. In addition to twelve books, she is the author of more than 170 articles and chapters on various topics ranging from the ethics of care to mathematical problem solving. Her latest books are Starting at Home: Caring and Social Policy (University of California Press) and Educating Moral People: A Caring Alternative to Character Education (Teachers College Press), both published in 2002.

  • 0521614724
  • 9780521614726
  • Nel Noddings
  • 6 December 2004
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 320
  • New Ed
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