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A richer, brighter vision for American high schools

Noddings, Nel, author

Overview

\"In today's high schools, education is often reduced to a means of achieving financial security, leading to an overemphasis on quantifiable measures of performance. This approach encourages academically talented students to focus on test scores and rankings rather than intellectual enrichment, and discourages students with non-academic talents from pursuing them. A Richer, Brighter Vision for American High Schools advocates instead a unifying educational aim of producing better adults, which would encompass all aspects of students' lives: intellectual, physical, moral, spiritual, social, vocational, aesthetic, and civic. Nel Noddings offers suggestions to improve high schools by increasing collegiality among students and faculty, enriching curricula with interdisciplinary themes, renewing vocational education programs, addressing parenting and homemaking, and professionalizing the teaching force. This thought-provoking book will act as an important guide for teachers, teacher educators, administrators, and policy makers\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Education, Secondary Aims and objectives United States. / High schools Curricula United States. / Educational change United States. / Holistic education United States. / Vocational education United States. / Teacher-student relationships United States. / School improvement programs United States. / PSYCHOLOGY / General.
• ISBN: 9781107075269, 1107075262, 9781107427914, 1107427916

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
LB1607.5.N64 2015	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE