Reviews for Some Present Aspects of the Work of Teachers' Voluntary Associations in the United States

The average rating for Some Present Aspects of the Work of Teachers' Voluntary Associations in the United States based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-02-17 00:00:00 Ronny Davis I was raised with this sort of stupidity and overall shallow appraisal of the reality. As I wasn't aware of the existence of one Noddings and probably Noddings wasn't THAT influent when I was in school, I assume Noddings just rehashes old wives tales and popular "common sense" as his own thoughts. > Because educational programs were designed by men, they were directed at preparation for public life - male life. Homemaking was taught at home and in some schools exclusively for women. Actually, from Medieval times there were two general directions in education: superior and inferior. The superior path was worthy of the elite, abstract, university-related. The inferior path was practical and it means apprenticeship. The women were defaulting to apprenticeship, yet there were cases when women got the best education available. More, although all sort of political activists dramatize, the act has a lot more to do with birth control than what Noddings pompously calls "public life". To make things worse, the simplistic thoughts generated by Noddings ignore the aspect of women imposing the position to other women and push for a new sentient god, the Society, which, like the father-god from the Christian trinity, is somehow male. Another remark would be that although the title and the self important remarks imply a general book, Noddings is limited to only the White European World, the others not worthy of the examination.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-08-10 00:00:00 Natalie Luque How would we have to change schools if student happiness was one of our aims? Noddings gives us the philosophical background of happiness and then moved forward to talk about different realms in which happiness can occur. Her recommendations in the final chapter about how to aim for happiness in schools calls for radical change, but ones that are generally feasible. I loved this book from the very moment I started reading it.