Critical Lessons What our Schools Should Teach [Hardcover]

This book concentrates on the critical, reflective thinking that should be taught in high schools.Critical Lessons concentrates on the critical, reflective thinking that should be taught in high schools. Taking seriously the Socratic advice, know thyself,  it focuses on topics that will help students to understand the forces - good and bad - that work to socialize them.Critical Lessons concentrates on the critical, reflective thinking that should be taught in high schools. Taking seriously the Socratic advice, know thyself,  it focuses on topics that will help students to understand the forces - good and bad - that work to socialize them.How can schools prepare students for real life? What should students learn in high school that is rarely addressed today? Critical Lessons recommends sharing highly controversial issues with high school students, including hot questions on war, gender, advertising, and religion.Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Learning and self-understanding; 2. The psychology of war; 3. House and home; 4. Other people; 5. Parenting; 6. Animals and nature; 7. Advertising and propaganda; 8. Making a living; 9. Gender; 10. Religion; 11. Preparing our schools; Notes; Bibliography. Drawing on historical and pedagogical studies, literary analysis, and primary-source materials, Noddings provides a wide-ranging argument for the discussion of race, class, gender, consumerism, mass communications, the family, and the workplace in the curriculum.[...] This volume is likely to become an important resource for future scholarship.
--Library Journal
Most readers of education-policy books like this expect the author to tell them what to think. But Noddings rarely advocates for any controversial position; instead, she gives teachers suggestions on how to begin provocative conversations, and offers ideas to keep these conversations safe, civil, and engaging. Most public-school graduates will find Critical Lessons a provocative ló½