‘Alternative Vision for Schools’ Topic of Creekmore Symposium

‘Alternative Vision for Schools’ Topic of Creekmore Symposium
RICE NEWS OFFICE
March 26, 1998

Methods of teaching, caring for children, and the effects of school structure
on children’s identity and their commitment to learning, are some of the topics
that will be addressed by the next Creekmore lecturer.

Nel Noddings, who is well known among educators for her work on caring in moral
theory and education, will deliver a lecture titled "If We Really Cared:
An Alternative Vision for Schools" at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 1, in
the Grand Hall of the Rice Memorial Center. The Hazel G. Creekmore Symposium
is sponsored by the Rice University Center for Education and is free and open
to the public.

Noddings is the Lee Jacks Professor of Child Education at Stanford University
and professor of philosophy and education at Teachers College Columbia University.
She is the author and co-editor of nine books and more than 125 articles on
topics ranging from feminist ethics to the philosophy of mathematics education.

Noddings will also participate in a seminar with Angela Valenzuela, assistant
professor of sociology, at 10 a.m. Thursday, April 2, in the Kyle Morrow Room
of Fondren Library. The topic of the discussion is titled "Does Everybody
Care? Structures of Caring and Cultural Subtraction in Schools." The seminar
is free and open to the public.

The Hazel G. Creekmore Memorial Curriculum Collection at Fondren Library at
Rice was established in 1993. The collection provides teachers, education students
and Rice faculty with professional resources on curriculum, teaching and children.

For related information visit the following Web site:
Rice University’s Center Education: www.ruf.rice.edu/~ctreduc/creekmore.html