Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility

Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility

by Thomas Lickona
Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility

Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility

by Thomas Lickona

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Overview

Calls for renewed moral education in America's schools, offering dozens of programs schools can adopt to teach students respect, responsibility, hard work, and other values that should not be left to parents to teach.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780553370522
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 09/01/1992
Pages: 496
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Dr. Thomas Lickona is a developmental psychologist and professor of education emeritus at the State University of New York at Cortland, where he directs the Center for the Fourth and Fifth Rs (Respect and Responsibility). A past president of the Association for Moral Education, he serves on the Board of Directors of the Character Education Partnership and speaks around the world to teachers, parents, religious educators, and other groups concerned about the character development of young people.

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Table of Contents

Part 1Educating for Values and Character
1.The Case for Values Education3
2.Educating for Character--and Why Schools Need Help from Home23
3.What Values Should Schools Teach?37
4.What Is Good Character?49
Part 2Classroom Strategies for Teaching Respect and Responsibility
Introduction to Parts Two and Three: Teaching Respect and Responsibility: The Big Ideas67
5.The Teacher as Caregiver, Model, and Mentor71
6.Creating a Moral Community in the Classroom89
7.Moral Discipline109
8.Creating a Democratic Classroom Environment: The Class Meeting135
9.Teaching Values Through the Curriculum161
10.Cooperative Learning185
11.The Conscience of Craft208
12.Encouraging Moral Reflection228
13.Raising the Level of Moral Discussion249
14.Teaching Controversial Issues268
15.Teaching Children to Solve Conflicts286
Part 3Schoolwide Strategies for Teaching Respect and Responsibility
16.Caring Beyond the Classroom303
17.Creating a Positive Moral Culture in the School323
18.Sex Education348
19.Drugs and Alcohol375
20.Schools, Parents, and Communities Working Together395
Appendix AGetting Started and Maintaining Momentum421
Notes425
Index457
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