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The Feel-Good Curriculum: The Dumbing-Down of America's Kids in the Name of Self-Esteem

The Feel-Good Curriculum: The Dumbing-Down of America's Kids in the Name of Self-Esteem

Stout, Maureen

Paperback

General EducationTeaching Instruction

ISBN10: 0738204358
ISBN13: 9780738204352
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: Feb 1 2001
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.83 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The so-called self-esteem movement-a progressive, child-centered, discovery model of schooling-has transformed schools into therapeutic clinics and teachers into counselors, creating a generation of entitled, righteous, underachieving children. An insider's account of the pernicious aspects of this seemingly well-meaning movement, The Feel-Good Curriculum provides devastating evidence that our belief in the power and importance of self-esteem in education is misplaced and without basis.Avoiding political posturing and political correctness, The Feel-Good Curriculum identifies the four specific effects of self-esteem's stranglehold on our schools-narcissism, emotivism, separatism, and cynicism. It prescribes antidotes to them-empathy, rationality and morality, connectedness, and skepticism-and offers a hopeful view of educational philosophy for the next millennium. Professor Stout urges us to replace our coddling, indulgent approach to building self-esteem in children with a sense of authentic self-confidence developed from intellectual, physical, and moral effort and achievement.

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