Critical Lessons
What our Schools Should Teach

This book concentrates on the critical, reflective thinking that should be taught in high schools.

Nel Noddings (Author)

9780521851886, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 8 May 2006

328 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.65 kg

"It is refreshing to read a volume written by an individual who has the understanding and experience to offer a well-reasoned, if radical, plan for curricular reform in public secondary schools[...]Critical Lessons should be required reading for every student in teacher education programs."
--Jean Shepherd Hamm, Feminist Teacher

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. This book argues why critical thinking is necessary in schools because it requires the discussion of critical issues: how we learn, the psychology of war, what it means to make a home, advertising and propaganda, choosing an occupation, gender, 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.

Subject Areas: Educational psychology [JNC], Education [JN]