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Nel Noddings, Lee Jacks Professor of Education, Emerita, at Stanford University, agrees with Professors Lapsley and Woodbury that moral aims are central to education. She has argued that the main aim of education is to p...
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Michael Slote's very interesting work on moral sentimentalism and moral education raises some important questions on the meaning of empathy, the limitations of "inductions", and the development of moral education from th...
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An alternative to character education is care ethics. The ethics of care can be seen as fundamentally relational, not individual-agent-based in the way of virtue ethics, and the ethics of care is more indirect than chara...
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Many teachers are not adequately prepared in the subject matter they will be teaching. The paper discusses how teachers' colleges once prepared teachers by integrating subject matter and pedagogy. It suggests ways to con...
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Examines Dewey's claim that moral education refers to both the conduct of education (a morally defensible form of education) and the product of education (a moral citizenry) as expressed in his essay "Ethical Principles ...
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Asserts that intelligent believers and nonbelievers share similar doubts and ethical commitments. Argues that education conscientiously taught for intelligent belief and nonbelief would result in greater communication be...
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The elite colleges exert too much control over a vast number of noncollege-bound students. Educators must rethink two beliefs supporting the top-down model of education: faulty notions about equal opportunity, sameness, ...
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Argues that affect has been neglected in education and that this neglect reduces the engagement of both students and teachers in their studies. Proposes increasing the use of stories in teacher education because they can...
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Examines three arguments supporting the status quo in education and society: the poor lack values and receive what they deserve, the rich are entitled to resources they accumulate, and change would require government int...
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The story of open education illustrates the fact that theoretical models are ideal descriptions of educational practices and beliefs, rather than bodies of prescriptive rules and principles. Open education is viewed as p...