TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stout,Maureen
TI  - The feel-good curriculum: the dumbing-down of America's kids in the name of self-esteem 
AV  - LC191.S889.F445 2000 
PY  - 2000/// (1999 printing)]
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Perseus Books
KW  - Education
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Teachers
KW  - Training of
KW  - Self-esteem
KW  - Educational change
N1  - 1 (pages 283-299) and index; 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; 2
ER  -