Nel Noddings as Social (Studies) Educator. Issue 4 (2nd October 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Thornton, Stephen J.
• Is Part Of: Theory into practice. Volume 57:Issue 4(2018)
• Page Start: 263
• Page End: 269
• Publication Date: 2018-10-02
• Subjects: Education -- Research -- Periodicals; Educational innovations -- Periodicals; 370.105
• DOI: 10.1080/00405841.2018.1518642
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0040-5841

Abstract

Abstract : Nel Noddings has presented a distinctive view of education that is relational in outlook. Although all of her writing holds implications for social education broadly construed, a subset of it addresses the school subject of social studies directly. This article mainly concerns what Noddings has said and implied about chief constructs of the latter. In particular, I look at (a) critical thinking, (b) what should be taught, and (c) what the foregoing suggest for teacher education. I conclude that her work holds great potential to reconstruct social studies theory and practice.