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Happiness and Educationreviewed by Stacy Otto - 2005 Title: Happiness and Education Author(s): Nel Noddings Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge ISBN: 0521807638, Pages: 316, Year: 2003 Search for book at Amazon.com Happiness may seem an unusual topic for educational philosophy
to some, but to many it rings true, a long overlooked and
provocative topic of considerable interest, a thoughtful, fresh
line of inquiry. The reticence of some may be due to the nature of
the term. A word like happiness may well be one of those that has
“lost” its meaning to a multitude of meanings, lost
like a reply to “How are you?” when answered by
“fine.” But in Noddings’ work happiness is pushed
beyond the level of mere platitude because it is adults and
children alike (and perhaps especially parents) who consistently
state that happiness is what they most want from life, what they
seek for themselves and their loved ones. So, if happiness is a
major aim and desire of American culture, why is it absent from the
theory and practice of schooling, the discourse of educational
reform and policy? And why do so many aspects of current-day
American schooling work systematically against... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Stacy Otto
Oklahoma State University E-mail Author STACY OTTO is an artist, writer, and researcher who currently instructs doctoral students in qualitative research methods at Oklahoma State University where she is an Assistant Professor of Social Foundations of Education. Her major research focus is on the importance of solitude and loss in an individual's decision to begin to pursue, in a full way, a creative life, and the implications for pedagogical theory and practice. Recent research includes a chapter in Postcritical Ethnography: Reinscribing Critique (2004, Hampton Press, George Noblit, Ed.), an article in a forthcoming issue of the journal Discourse entitled "Nostalgic for What?: The Epidemic of Images of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Classroom in American Media Culture and What It Means," as well as work on James T. Sears' current project Sexualities, Education and Cultures (forthcoming, Greenwood Publishing Group).
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