Nel Noddings as Social (Studies) Educator

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.

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Stephen J. Thornton

Stephen J. Thornton is at the College of Education, University of South Florida.