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Educating for intelligent belief or unbelief

Title
Educating for intelligent belief or unbelief / Nel Noddings.
Author
Noddings, Nel.
Publication
New York : Teachers College Press, ©1993.

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Description
xvi, 157 pages; 24 cm
Summary
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 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 evalution.--Goodreads.
Series Statement
The John Dewey lecture
Uniform Title
John Dewey lecture (Teachers College Press)
Subject
  • Religion in the public schools > United States
  • Religion > Study and teaching > United States
  • Religious education > United States
  • Religion in the public schools
  • Religion > Study and teaching
  • Religious education
  • Catechese
  • Openbaar onderwijs
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-152) and index.
Contents
Existential and metaphysical questions in the classroom -- The nature of gods -- Belonging -- Feminism and religion -- Immortality, salvation, and pessimism -- Humanism and unbelief -- Religious and secular ethics -- Is such a program possible in schools?
ISBN
  • 0807732729
  • 9780807732724
  • 0807732710
  • 9780807732717
  • 9780807775981
  • 0807775983
LCCN
93019098
OCLC
  • ocm27894547
  • 27894547
  • SCSB-8917872
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library