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When parents are asked what they want for their children, they usually answer that they want their children to be happy. Why, then, is happiness rarely mentioned as a goal of education? This book explores what we might teach if we were to take happiness seriously as a goal of education. It asks, first, what it means to be happy and, second, how we can help children to understand it. It notes that we have to develop a capacity for unhappiness and a willingness to alleviate the suffering of others to be truly happy. Criticizing our current almost exclusive emphasis on economic well-being and pleasure, Nel Noddings discusses the contributions of making a home, parenting, cherishing a place, the development of character, interpersonal growth, finding work that one loves, and participating in a democratic way of life. Finally, she explores ways in which to make schools and classrooms cheerful places. Nell Noddings is Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education, Emerita, at Stanford University. She is past president of the Philosophy of Education Society and of the John Dewey Society. In addition to twelve books, she is the author of more than 170 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) and Educating Moral People: A Caring Alternative to Character Education (Teachers College Press), both published in 2002.

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• Published on: 2004-12-06
• Original language: English
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• Dimensions: 8.98" h x .71" w x 5.98" l, 1.05 pounds
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"Happiness and Education is especially commended to the attention of public and private school teachers, and administrative policy makers as informed, thoughtful, and thought-provoking reading."
--Library Bookwatch, The Midwest Book Review


"Happiness and Education is ultimately a critique of American culture, not just its educational system. But Noddings shows how the narrow curriculum found in most classrooms helps shape a culture with misguided priorities. Perhaps today's educational leaders would benefit from reading her book and exercising some critical thinking of their own."
--Greater Good


"With her special combination of tenderness and sharpness of vision, Noddings makes us look squarely at some not so obvious truths. Happiness as a goal is much derided, except when it comes to our own lives and our own children. The painful contradictions that we force on our children and their families in order to avoid asking what truly matters are obvious as we confront children in their daily eagerness to find both happiness and meaning--in schools carefully designed not to answer either. Growing up and being educated today takes a very different look when seen through Noddings's careful perspective. Those of us trying to create schools that respond to her questions will read this book carefully many times."
--Deborah Meier, Principal, Mission Hill School, Boston


"Nel Noddings's beautiful book Happiness in Education is an incandescent joy to read. The educational landscape of the past ten years would be a very different one if voices as humane and wise as hers had been more widely heard. I have been hungering for a book like this and am grateful to Nel Noddings for providing it."
--Jonathan Kozol, author of Savage Inequalities and Ordinary Resurrections


"The most important and influential philosopher on the concept of caring in education, Noddings beautifully synthesizes her admirable corpus in this new book.... In sum, reading Noddings is akin to earning a condensed, invigorating form of liberal education in philosophy, psychology, literature, and theology. Highly recommended."
--Choice


"Noddings' thesis and argument that happiness and education not only can but should coexist must be taken seriously by everyone concerned about preparing children and young adults for a truly satisfying life in our democratic society."
--Catholic Library World

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"Happiness and Education is especially commended to the attention of public and private school teachers, and administrative policy makers as informed, thoughtful, and thought-provoking reading."
--Library Bookwatch, The Midwest Book Review


"Happiness and Education is ultimately a critique of American culture, not just its educational system. But Noddings shows how the narrow curriculum found in most classrooms helps shape a culture with misguided priorities. Perhaps today's educational leaders would benefit from reading her book and exercising some critical thinking of their own."
--Greater Good


"With her special combination of tenderness and sharpness of vision, Noddings makes us look squarely at some not so obvious truths. Happiness as a goal is much derided, except when it comes to our own lives and our own children. The painful contradictions that we force on our children and their families in order to avoid asking what truly matters are obvious as we confront children in their daily eagerness to find both happiness and meaning--in schools carefully designed not to answer either. Growing up and being educated today takes a very different look when seen through Noddings's careful perspective. Those of us trying to create schools that respond to her questions will read this book carefully many times."
--Deborah Meier, Principal, Mission Hill School, Boston


"Nel Noddings's beautiful book Happiness in Education is an incandescent joy to read. The educational landscape of the past ten years would be a very different one if voices as humane and wise as hers had been more widely heard. I have been hungering for a book like this and am grateful to Nel Noddings for providing it."
--Jonathan Kozol, author of Savage Inequalities and Ordinary Resurrections


"The most important and influential philosopher on the concept of caring in education, Noddings beautifully synthesizes her admirable corpus in this new book.... In sum, reading Noddings is akin to earning a condensed, invigorating form of liberal education in philosophy, psychology, literature, and theology. Highly recommended."
--Choice


"Noddings' thesis and argument that happiness and education not only can but should coexist must be taken seriously by everyone concerned about preparing children and young adults for a truly satisfying life in our democratic society."
--Catholic Library World

About the Author
Nel Noddings is Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education, Emerita, at Stanford University. She is author of 12 books; the latest two are Educating Moral People: A Caring Alternative to Character Education and Starting at Home: Caring and Social Policy, both published in 2002. Noddings spent 15 years as teacher, administrator, and curriculum developer in public schools; she served 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 is member of the National Academy of Education, a Laureate member of Kappa Delta Pi, and she holds two honorary degrees in addition to a number of awards, among them the Anne Rowe Award for contributions to the education of women (Harvard University), the Willystine Goodsell Award (AERA), a Lifetime Achievement Award from AERA (Div. B), and the Excellence in Education Award (Pi Lambda Theta).

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By Birte E. Kvalo
Even though I live in Norway where the educational system works differently than in the US, this book was a real eyeopener to me. In a time where the school focuses more and more on the student's achievements in basic subjects like math, reading and writing, and where there's been put more and more weight on testing the students in these skills, this book represent and alternative way of thinking. Do we all need an academic education? Why do we educate students in the thought that all of them should go on with their studies beyond a collegelevel? What about all those occupations where you don't need academic skills, those occupations where you need practical skills? (skills that you weren't taught in school because the weight was put on the teoretical subjects). Being a teacher or a parent, this book will give you a new perspective on how to raise and educate our children.

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Criticizing an almost exclusive focus on economic well-being
By Midwest Book Review
In Happiness And Education, author and academician Nel Noddings (Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education, Emerita, Standford University) draws upon her years of experience, expertise and research as a teacher, administrator, and curriculum developer in public schools to address the very specific issue of the relationship of happiness to that of the experience of education and why, although parental expectations are quite clear that happiness is a kind of byproduct of education, it is not normal mentioned as one of the principle aims of education. Professor Noddings explores what it means to be happy, and then goes on to address how educators can help children to understand what happiness is. Criticizing an almost exclusive focus on economic well-being as the approved outcome of educational accomplishment, Professor Noddings emphasizes the contributions education provides with respect to making a home, parenting, developing character and interpersonal growth, identifying and engaging in work that is satisfying, participating effectively in a political democracy, and ways in which we can make schools and classrooms happy places of learning and intellectual exploration. Happiness And Education is especially commended to the attention of public and private school teachers, and administrative policy makers as informed, thoughtful, and though-provoking reading.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
Rethinking education to make school meaningful again
By Andrew Asensio
Nel Noddings absolutely hits the nail on the head with her discussion of how we need to reevaluate the aims of our educational system. As it is currently situated, education serves almost entirely an economic function, in preparing students to enter the workforce and become good consumers in a successful economy. Whatever social functions the school serves are relegated to the background, and in fact tend to be discouraged if they are ever considered to be possibly getting in the way of the true goals. Of course, Noddings is also right in that we seem to have even lost focus of our original economic aims. The need to compete with others in standardized testing has forced students to learn things that may be becoming increasingly less and less relevant - Noddings's point about how asking an algebra teacher says that the point of a lesson is always going to be related only to other algebra lessons is something that every student of the school system has been frustrated with at one point or another (75).

Fortunately, Noddings does not fall into the trap that I envisioned as possible - that she would instead declare that the defined goal of education should be happiness. Such a lofty but ultimately nonsubstantive goal would be, to put it quite simply, silly, and ultimately even worse than the economic goals of the current arrangement. Fortunately, Noddings avoids the mistake of trying to make a singular definition of happiness and then working toward it. Instead, the final two thirds of the book are devoted to various different parts of life that Noddings would like to see become more prominent as aims of education. What makes the book so good is in how Noddings successfully weaves in the notion of happiness throughout all of these elements of life - which include raising a family, spirituality, participation in the democratic process, and, yes, in the workplace - together with the discussion of how education must be aimed toward these goals. It is almost as if the book is a collaboration of two distinct theses - how these parts of life are important to our happiness, and how education must serve these parts of life - and that seems to be the reason for how the book flows as well as it does when it is based on a topic like happiness that in lesser hands would be incredibly trite and quickly grow repetitive.

Of the two theses, neither is easy to quibble with. In regard to the thesis about how schools need to refocus their aims toward more relevant applications, I certainly have no disagreement; I believe that we clearly have lost track of what schools should be about and that the U.S. educational system is slowly careening toward greater and greater irrelevance (although it probably isn't much of a new phenomenon after all; how much of what scholars studied in ancient times was really necessary for their life experiences?). The idea of how the various elements that Noddings discusses as being keys to personal happiness are somewhat more spurious, in that personal happiness is by definition personal, and what makes one person happy is going to be far different from what makes another person happy (traditional education does make many lifelong scholars happy, for one). But Noddings does allow for this, and so I have no quarrel with her desire to try to point out some elements that typically make people happy for the sake of the argument.

Consider a sample sentence from the introduction to chapter 7; the introductions to all of the chapters in parts 2 and 3 of the book are structured quite similarly: "Possibly there is no human task more demanding, more rewarding, and more universal than parenting, and yet our schools apparently think that algebra and Shakespeare are more important" (138). The point of how schools are inadequate in their current aims is constantly reinforced. Here Noddings makes the argument that education needs to be reshaped such that students become more acquainted with concepts like child-rearing and how parents can play effective roles in their children's lives, "without preaching or direct instruction" (156). Noddings is right in having to address this final qualifier, since such nontraditional lessons might be controversial if they try to teach right and wrong answers in the same way that algebra might. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to go in that direction. After all, having an open discussion about the legitimacy of educational lessons is far from being the worst thing that could happen. The worst thing, rather, would be to maintain our current inertia.

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Stephen M. Stahl is Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California at San Diego School of Medicine. He has conducted numerous research projects awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the Veterans Administration, and the pharmaceutical industry. The author of more than 300 articles and chapters, Stephen M. Stahl is an internationally recognized clinician, researcher, and teacher in psychiatry with subspecialty expertise in psychopharmacology.

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This is a fantastic reference to meteorites. Large, beautifully bound and with great colour images and illustrations. Norton certainly knows his subject and takes us on a cosmic jouney, from black rocks found in the desert to a time before the formation of the solar system. There is plenty of technical and scientific details to feed the mind of the most educated reader. He explains concepts like radio-isotope dating with a clarity lacking at many eductional institutions today. Highly recommended for all those with an interest in space or astronomy and the growing number of meteorite collectors out there. My only minor criticism is that the font used in the book could have been a little bolder and easier to read for my aging eyes. Norton deserves a 10/10 for this fine effort.

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A must for serious meteorite collectors!
By membox
The serious amateur who wants to collect meteorites must read this book. It compiles into its pages everything one needs to know about the science of meteorites, short of reading complex technical papers. Basics are written in understandable language that the layman can easily follow.

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One of the best meteorite references!
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Richard Norton's 'The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Meteorites' is one of the best references for meteorites I have read in some time. Plenty of photographs and diagrams makes this book an easy to read page turner. I also found my copy for almost half of the asking price.

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In this rigorous account the author studies both discrete-time and continuous-time chains. A distinguishing feature is an introduction to more advanced topics such as martingales and potentials, in the established context of Markov chains. There are applications to simulation, economics, optimal control, genetics, queues and many other topics, and a careful selection of exercises and examples drawn both from theory and practice. This is an ideal text for seminars on random processes or for those that are more oriented towards applications, for advanced undergraduates or graduate students with some background in basic probability theory.

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"...impressive ....I heartily recommend this book....this is the best book available summarizing the theory of Markov Chains....Norris achieves for Markov Chains what Kingman has so elegantly achieved for Poisson processes....Such creative tinkering will be a pleasure to many teachers." Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

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Good introductory treatment, but has some issues
By Paul Thurston
This book has two principal aims. In the first half of the book, the aim is the study of discrete time and continuous time Markov chains. The first part of the text is very well written and easily accessible to the advanced undergraduate engineering or mathematics student.

My only complaint in the first half of the text regards the definition of continuous time Markov chains. The definition is introduced using the technical concepts of jump chain/holding time properties. This doesn't tie out well with the treatment of the discrete time case and may seem counter-intuitive to readers initially. However, the author does establish the equivalence of the jump chain/holding time definition to the usual transition probability definition towards the end of Chapter 2.

The second half of the text deals with the relationship of Markov chains to other aspects of stochastic analysis and the application of Markov chains to applied settings.

In Chapter 4, the material takes a serious jump (explosion?) in sophistication level. In this chapter, the author introduces filtrations, martingales, optional sampling/optional stopping and Brownian motion. This is entirely too ambitious a reading list to squeeze into the 40 or so pages allocated for all of this, in the opinion of this reviewer. The author places some prerequisite material in the appendix chapter.

Chapter 5 is a much more down-to-earth treatment of genuine applications of Markov chains. Birth/Death processes in biology, queuing networks in information theory, inventory management in operations research, and Markov decision processes are introduced via a series of very nice toy examples. This chapter wraps up with a nice discussion of simulation and the method of Markov chain Monte Carlo.

If the next edition of this book removes chapter 4 and replaces it with treatment of an actual real-world problem (or two) using genuine data sets, this reviewer would be happy to rate that edition 5 stars.

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Unique but poorly written
By Diff D
This is a unique book that bridges the gap between undergraduate and graduate treatment but only in the first three chapters. It does require a number of preparatory courses, from multivariate calculus, linear algebra, differential equations to solid understanding of at least undergraduate level of probability, preferable something like Williams' "Probability with Martingales" which Norris seems to refer to. In the United States this is a preparation that is available only in elite schools as many do not even require differential equations for mathematics major while probability is indeed a rare feat to see in mostly pathetic US undergraduate math curricula.

Unfortunately the book is not well written and that is the main reason why it is not more popular than it is. The text beyond first three chapters is largely useless and hard to sort out, with very little care about readability.

There are moments in the text when the author assumes his reader is quite telepatic as some proofs are rather sketchy, and some are even erroneous. Given the first edition that is forgivable although fairly annoying on occasion. The book also contains quite a few misprints adding to confusion. In its scope, the Chapter 1 on discrete Markov Chains is charming, rigorous, and accessible. I have not seen elementary Markov Chains treatment with such a solid level of rigor. Intuition is paired with precise proofs. Chapter 2 on the other hand is somewhat strange and too lax but with important treatment of special cases of Markov Processes to motivate the theory with the main result of definition of continuous Markov Chain. Prior to that the author has chosen "holding times - jump process" presentation which is intuitivelly easier to understand although the definition itself is more intricate. Unfortunately, the author failed to prove the equivalence of the definition with the standard "transition probabilities" definition since the only place he proves "Strong Markov Property" is in the appendix where he made a whole sorry mess with erroneous proofs of lemmas leading to the theorem. The chapter 2 is supposed to strengthen the basic understanding and, in my view, it does that well. Proofs are sometimes sketchy and require considerable work to decipher through. For example Theorem 2.8.6 is appealing to Lemma 2.8.5 while it actually uses different fact that is never proven. It looks like Norris is not aware of that in his sloppiness. I've found myself hard to believe in that proof so me and my colleague have proven theorem using a different deduction. Only at the very end of the chapter the author returns to appropriate precision. Continuous treatment of main results in Chapter 3 is somewhat lacking precision as well, plenty of messy proofs there, in particular conditional probabilities are treated too intuitive. For example stopping time sigma algebra is never properly introduced even though it was used in statements of few propositions with reference to stopped variables (in Chapter 2) but without any precision.

I would assume this book is beneficial for the introductory graduate course on stochastic processes and Markov Chains although not more than that. That is for the first 3 Chapters. As short as it is, it is a good alternative for one semester course.

I am not so sure what is the purpose of the 4th Chapter as it is insufficient to be serious enough. It is rather poorly written appealing on intuition and lacking precision. The mortal flaw of the whole chapter is that the author uses terms that are never defined, proofs that are sketchy appealing on intuition, and to top that off the senseless notation is just relentless, the same continues in Chapter 5. The end of the section on Brownian motion is a classic example of a largely useless text that is only readable by the author himself. The whole chapter is probably some of the worst math writing I have seen in probability texts though there is no shortage of rather bad publications. Any reader would be served the best to avoid the whole Chapter 4 as it requires disproportionate time to read it given meager benefits of learning anything from it. Chapter 5 on applications suffers again from casual and sketchy writing with little care about presentation. Even though it presents the read with valuable examples, for example very nice applications in Queuing Theory, it is probably not worth the effort to read. It is full of tough misprints that make it very hard to read, for example upside down fraction in description of Hastings Algorithm. Since it is largely irrelevant for those going into any specialized direction given how sketchy it is, it can be easily discarded until Norris makes a more consistent presentation, perhaps in the second edition.

Make no mistake, this BOOK REQUIRES GRADUATE LEVEL OF MATURITY as far as most of math majors in US go. I do not see any undergraduate beside exceptionally gifted ones to be able to read this text. The reader is expected to fill in many gaps in proofs. Take a look at the theorems 3.5.3 and 3.5.6. Everything is correct there but sloppiness of presentation creates a mess pretty hard to read. In the proof of 3.5.3 there is a reference on Fubini while in fact the proof goes by conditioning expectation. In 3.5.6 bunch of (correct) facts are thrown at the reader with a showel and without any regard for clarity of presentation. One would not expect that from a textbook.

Also on the negative side, measure theoretic aspect is sketchy/ambiguous/insufficient, the short appendix is not a great help for the same reasons including few confusing errors that should be embarrassing to the author. The editors have not done a good job of removing misprints. There are plenty of those, this is already a staple of poor editing in Cambridge Press publications, some are obvious but some are difficult to spot making already sketchy presentation by the author hard to decipher. Case in point - try to find a misprint on the 4th line of page 187.

This book needs to be rewritten and author ought to chose what level of rigor/intuition he wants throughout the whole text instead of changing the approach from chapter to chapter. If he choses to omit important deductions then he should have 0 misprints. Nevertheless this is a charming and serious book though it could have been written significantly better than it is. Given that nowadays we, the readers that is, are putting up with all sorts of rather slopy textbooks this is not so bad given the first edition.

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Very useful if you have a good mathematical background!
By A Customer
I found this book very useful for a better comprehension of Markov chains and for understanding the theory, but you need a very good knowledge of mathematics like calculus, matrix, differential equations and statistics in order to keep going in your reading. Don't expect full numerical examples, be ready for demostrations! I recommend it for students interested in stochastic processes or looking a good approach to the basis of Markov processes.

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