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The happiest days of your life? Happiness and Education NEL NODDINGS CAMBRIDGE: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS; 2005; PB £ 14.99 (ISBN 0 521 614724)
THE author has, for almost 20 years now, been at the forefront of the debate between the role of education and the responsibilities individuals have to others and themselves. Noddings has previously discussed the relationship between caring, morality and schooling, and Happiness and Education seeks to develop this by focusing on defining and exploring the experience of happiness. The result is a thesis that can offer all those who work with young people the opportunity to re-evaluate the nature of children's educational experiences and how these can impact on later experiences in life.
A central premise for Noddings is that happy people are not cruel, mean or violent; and that in these times shaped by an...