Helping Students to Think

Authors

Nel Noddings, Stanford University

Document Type

Article in Response to Controversy

Abstract

Perhaps the best way to provide a safe, secure, and nurturing school environment is, first, to outlaw personal attacks of any kind (this seems to pass constitutional muster) and, second, to help students to think critically so that they are not such easy prey to propaganda—political, economic, or religious.

Genre/Form

articles

Recommended Citation

Noddings, Nel (2006) "Helping Students to Think," Journal of Educational Controversy: Vol. 1: No. 1, Article 5.
Available at: https://cedar.wwu.edu/jec/vol1/iss1/5

Subjects - Topical (LCSH)

Critical thinking in children--United States; Critical thinking in adolescence--United States; Democracy and education--United States

Geographic Coverage

United States

Language

English

Format

application/pdf

Type

Text