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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816897703321

Autore

Slote Michael A.

Titolo

Education and human values : reconciling talent with an ethics of care / / Michael Slote

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-29953-X

0-203-11655-0

1-283-86221-2

1-136-29954-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (107 p.)

Disciplina

370.11/4

Soggetti

Moral education - United States

Ethics - United States

Education - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Education and creativity -- Care ethics vs. other approaches -- Sentimentalist moral education -- Sentimentalist rational education -- What kind of country?.

Sommario/riassunto

Two of our greatest educational theorists, John Dewey and Nel Noddings, have been reluctant to admit that some students are simply more talented than others. This was no doubt due to their feeling that such an admission was inconsistent with democratic concern for everyone. But there really is such a thing as superior talent; and the present book explains how that admission is compatible with our ideals of caring (and democracy). Traditionalists confident that some disciplines are more important than others haven't worried that that way of putting things threatens to make those who are excl