TCU School of Education hosts Green Honors Chair lecture
Fort Worth, TX
12/6/2006
The TCU School of Education will host a Green Honors Chair lecture featuring Dr. Nel Noddings Tuesday, Jan. 16, and Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2007. Both sessions, which are free and open to the public, will be held 7:30 - 9:00 p.m. in the Dee J. Kelly Alumni & Visitors Center. The first session will be on “Happiness and Education” and the second session will be on “Critical Lessons for Critical Thinking.” Please RSVP by Jan. 12. 2007.
Dr. Noddings is the Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education, Emerita, at Stanford University. She is well known for her work around the ethics of caring, and has added significantly to theory and practice in education. She is past president of the Philosophy of Education Society and of the John Dewey Society.
In addition to 14 books - among them are Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education, Women and Evil, The Challenge to Care in Schools, Educating for Intelligent Belief or Unbelief, and Philosophy of Education - she is the author of some 200 articles and chapters on various topics ranging from the ethics of care to mathematical problem solving. Her latest books are Starting at Home: Caring and Social Policy (University of California Press), Educating Moral People: A Caring Alternative to Character Education (Teachers College Press) and Happiness and Education (Cambridge University Press).
Noddings spent 15 years as a teacher, administrator, and curriculum developer in public schools. She served as a mathematics department chairperson in New Jersey and as director of the laboratory schools at the University of Chicago. At Stanford, she received the Award for Teaching Excellence three times, most recently in 1997. She also served as associate dean and as acting dean at Stanford University for four years.
For more information, call 817-257-7663 or s.williams3@tcu.edu.
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Media contact:
Shawn Kornegay
Asst. director of communications
817-257-5061
s.kornegay@tcu.edu
Shawn Kornegay
Asst. director of communications
817-257-5061
s.kornegay@tcu.edu