The feel-good curriculum : the dumbing-down of America's kids in the name of self-esteem /
Stout, Maureen,
The feel-good curriculum : the dumbing-down of America's kids in the name of self-esteem / [print] Maureen Stout. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : Perseus Books, (c)2000 (1999 printing)] - xiii, 313 pages ; 25 cm.
Introduction: The false prophet of self-esteem -- Part I. Creating a culture of therapy: How we got here from there. What is school for, anyway? -- Inside the Ed School: The politics of teacher education -- What's so progressive about this: Child-centered education and the transformation of the American public school -- Part II. Therapy nation: Culture and schooling in contemporary America. The rake's progress: Self-esteem takes over -- Nothing more than feelings: The naked truth about self-esteem -- Practicing self-esteem: Magic, myths, and masquerades -- Part III. Challenging the consequences of self-esteem. Too many degrees of separation: Self-esteem and the death of community -- The return of ethics in education: Answering emotivism -- Back to the future: From cynicism to skepticism and hope -- Epilogue: Education for a new millennium.
99068947
Education--Social aspects--United States.
Teachers--Training of--Social aspects--United States.
Self-esteem--Social aspects--United States.
Educational change--United States.
LC191.S889.F445 2000
The feel-good curriculum : the dumbing-down of America's kids in the name of self-esteem / [print] Maureen Stout. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : Perseus Books, (c)2000 (1999 printing)] - xiii, 313 pages ; 25 cm.
Introduction: The false prophet of self-esteem -- Part I. Creating a culture of therapy: How we got here from there. What is school for, anyway? -- Inside the Ed School: The politics of teacher education -- What's so progressive about this: Child-centered education and the transformation of the American public school -- Part II. Therapy nation: Culture and schooling in contemporary America. The rake's progress: Self-esteem takes over -- Nothing more than feelings: The naked truth about self-esteem -- Practicing self-esteem: Magic, myths, and masquerades -- Part III. Challenging the consequences of self-esteem. Too many degrees of separation: Self-esteem and the death of community -- The return of ethics in education: Answering emotivism -- Back to the future: From cynicism to skepticism and hope -- Epilogue: Education for a new millennium.
99068947
Education--Social aspects--United States.
Teachers--Training of--Social aspects--United States.
Self-esteem--Social aspects--United States.
Educational change--United States.
LC191.S889.F445 2000