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This title in other editionsEducating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibilityby Thomas Lickona
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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
Table of ContentsThe case for values education — Educating for character, and why schools need help from home — What values should schools teach? — What is good character? — The teacher as caregiver, model, and mentor — Creating a moral community in the classroom — Moral discipline — Creating a democratic classroom environment : the class meeting — Teaching values through the curriculum — Cooperative learning — The conscience of craft — Encouraging moral reflection — Raising the level of moral discussion — Teaching controversial issues — Teaching children to solve conflicts — Caring beyond the classroom — Creating a positive moral culture in the school — Sex education — Drugs and alcohol — Schools, parents, and communities working together.
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