Happiness and Education
Tilting at windmills
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8857060 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan Verducci (a San Jose State University , USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 498-501 |
| Publication date | 2012-05-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational Philosophy and Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-1857 • E-ISSN: 1469-5812 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1469-5812.2012.00854.x |
| OpenAlex | W1970879010 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
This essay explores the question Is Nel Noddings a visionary who sees past the constraints of contemporary education or is she, like Don Quixote, madly tilting at windmills in her description and defense of happiness as an educational aim?Viewing the educational aim of happiness as an ideal raises substantial challenges for the practicality of Noddings’s ideas
Aesthetics · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Happiness · Higher education · Ideal (ethics · Pedagogy · Philosophy of education · Political science · Sociology · Critical and Liberation Pedagogy · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Early Childhood Education and Development · Educational Challenges and Innovations · Law · Philosophy · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |