# The Feel-Good Curriculum

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- Authors: [Maureen Stout](https://www.bookquiver.com/maureen-stout)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2001-01-11

## Description

The so-called self-esteem movement-a progressive, child-centreed, 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.

## Editions

### The Feel-Good Curriculum

- Publisher: da_capo_press
- ISBN: 978-07-3820-435-2
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2001-01-11
- Language: en_GB