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The feel-good curriculum : the dumbing-down of America's kids in the name of self-esteem / Maureen Stout. [print]

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Stout, Maureen [Author]

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LC191.S889.F445 2000

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Contents:

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.

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Withdrawn	G. Allen Fleece Library WITHDRAWN	Non-fiction	LC191.4.S76 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1 Not for loan		31923001453881

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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.

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