The Challenge to Care in Schools: An Alternative Approach to Education

by Nel Noddings

Book Overview

After a decade of educational reforms, The Challenge to Care in Schools is even more relevant now than when it was first published. In her new Introduction, Nel Noddings revisits her seminal book and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807731773
• ISBN13: 9780807731772
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

The Challenge to Care in Schools

interesting but unrealistic recommendations to change focus of curriculum in education; quotes Dewey quite a bit; easy to read, required for a class

Can caring work in our schools?

Noddings, in this book, addresses some of the issues facing our students in this day and age. She looks at issues of school violence, substance abuse, sexuality, etc. from the perspective of curriculum and provides suggestions on how schools could adress these issues based on the philosophy of caring. Noddings is a reconstructionist in her views but in this book offers concrete examples of how caring could be incorporated into the existing curriculum. Her use of examples helps to clarify her concepts and spheres of caring and why she believes schools need to incorporate care into their curricula. I found her first book difficult to read and did not feel that it made her points as clearly as this book does. I would reccomend this book as an entrance into the discussion of what role alternative views, such as caring, could have in our public schools. For people interested in education, public schools, and how to change our students' experiences for the better, this is a good book to read.