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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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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Psychology

• Full title: Feel-Good Curriculum
• Subtitle: The Dumbing Down Of America's Kids In The Name Of Self-esteem
• Author: Maureen Stout
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• EAN: 9780738204352
• ISBN: 0738204358
• ID: 04668084
• Publisher: Hachette Books
• Weight: 456 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 156 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. February 2001

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