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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Perseus Books, (c)2000 (1999 printing)]Description: xiii, 313 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
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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Withdrawn G. Allen Fleece Library WITHDRAWN Non-fiction LC191.4.S76 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Not for loan 31923001453881

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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