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

by Thomas Lickona

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 1	Educating for Values and Character
1.	The Case for Values Education	3
2.	Educating for Character--and Why Schools Need Help from Home	23
3.	What Values Should Schools Teach?	37
4.	What Is Good Character?	49
Part 2	Classroom Strategies for Teaching Respect and Responsibility
	Introduction to Parts Two and Three: Teaching Respect and Responsibility: The Big Ideas	67
5.	The Teacher as Caregiver, Model, and Mentor	71
6.	Creating a Moral Community in the Classroom	89
7.	Moral Discipline	109
8.	Creating a Democratic Classroom Environment: The Class Meeting	135
9.	Teaching Values Through the Curriculum	161
10.	Cooperative Learning	185
11.	The Conscience of Craft	208
12.	Encouraging Moral Reflection	228
13.	Raising the Level of Moral Discussion	249
14.	Teaching Controversial Issues	268
15.	Teaching Children to Solve Conflicts	286
Part 3	Schoolwide Strategies for Teaching Respect and Responsibility
16.	Caring Beyond the Classroom	303
17.	Creating a Positive Moral Culture in the School	323
18.	Sex Education	348
19.	Drugs and Alcohol	375
20.	Schools, Parents, and Communities Working Together	395
Appendix A	Getting Started and Maintaining Momentum	421
	Notes	425
	Index	457

Editorial Reviews

Lickona, author of Raising Good Children ( LJ 9/15/83), views the school as a major force in responding to America's moral crisis. He defines values, discusses how they may be taught, and outlines the role of school and family. He emphasizes values as an important factor in the well being of a nation, family, and individual. His arguments are good ones. However, this is the age of diversification, political action committees, and special interest groups. Issues such as homosexuality, condom distribution, abortion, and AIDS call forth a number of opinions absolutely believed in with little tolerance for opposition, reasoned or otherwise. These aspects make a commonality or sharing of values a very difficult prospect. On a technical level, the lack of an index reduces the book's utility. Notwithstanding these criticisms, Educating for Character should be made available to teachers, future teachers, and parents.-- Federico U. Acerri, Wayne Cty. Regional Educational Svce. Agency, Mich.

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