Handbook of Moral and Character Education

Handbook of Moral and Character Education
Author: Larry Nucci
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 805
Release: 2014-04-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136293116

There is widespread agreement that schools should contribute to the moral development and character formation of their students. In fact, 80% of US states currently have mandates regarding character education. However, the pervasiveness of the support for moral and character education masks a high degree of controversy surrounding its meaning and methods. The purpose of this handbook is to supplant the prevalent ideological rhetoric of the field with a comprehensive, research-oriented volume that both describes the extensive changes that have occurred over the last fifteen years and points forward to the future. Now in its second edition, this book includes the latest applications of developmental and cognitive psychology to moral and character education from preschool to college settings, and much more.

Character Education Book of Plays - Elementary Level

Character Education Book of Plays - Elementary Level
Author: Judy Truesdell Mecca
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001-05
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780865304857

Includes seven plays, dealing with respect, honesty, responsibility, commitment, love, courage and incorporates acting, music, visual arts, communication skills and fun to help reinvent morals for elementary age children.

PRIMED for Character Education

PRIMED for Character Education
Author: Marvin W Berkowitz
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2021-04-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351030248

Winner of the 2023 Outstanding Book Award from AERA's Moral Development and Education SIG! In PRIMED for Character Education, renowned character educator Marvin W Berkowitz boils down decades of research on evidence-based practices and thought-provoking field experience into a clear set of principles that leaders, administrators, and teacher-leaders can implement to help students thrive. The author’s original six-component framework offers a comprehensive guide to shaping purposeful learning environments, healthy relationships, core values and virtues, role models, empowerment, and long-term development in any PreK-12 school or district. This engaging and heartfelt book features tips for practice, anecdotes from award-winning schools, and straightforward tenets from moral education, social-emotional learning, and positive psychology.

Aristotelian Character Education

Aristotelian Character Education
Author: Kristján Kristjánsson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2015-04-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317619072

This book provides a reconstruction of Aristotelian character education, shedding new light on what moral character really is, and how it can be highlighted, measured, nurtured and taught in current schooling. Arguing that many recent approaches to character education understand character in exclusively amoral, instrumentalist terms, Kristjánsson proposes a coherent, plausible and up-to-date concept, retaining the overall structure of Aristotelian character education. After discussing and debunking popular myths about Aristotelian character education, subsequent chapters focus on the practical ramifications and methodologies of character education. These include measuring virtue and morality, asking whether Aristotelian character education can salvage the effects of bad upbringing, and considering implications for teacher training and classroom practice. The book rejuvenates time-honoured principles of the development of virtues in young people, at a time when ‘character’ features prominently in educational agendas and parental concerns over school education systems. Offering an interdisciplinary perspective which draws from the disciplines of education, psychology, philosophy and sociology, this book will appeal to researchers, academics and students wanting a greater insight into character education.

Character and Community Development

Character and Community Development
Author: Gordon G. Vessels
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1998-08-27
Genre: Education
ISBN:

This book provides the conceptual, theoretical, and methodological foundation that teachers, principals, professors, and students preparing for teaching will need in order to be informed and effective planners and evaluators of character education programs and good character educators. Through its clear definition of terms, review of Constitutional and public support, comparative analysis of philosophical approaches, synthesis of many relevant theories of child development, K-12 core curriculum, description of many instructional strategies, and methodology for program evaluation, this handbook effectively prepares prospective program planners and character educators to create comprehensive programs that are developmentally appropriate, adapted to the unique needs and characteristics of school communities, and soundly evaluated. Dr. Vessels presents a wide range of options, developmental and practical guidelines for choosing from among these options, and a creative core curriculum and evaluation technology that he hopes school community members will find useful for their particular school or system.

Teaching Character Education Through Literature

Teaching Character Education Through Literature
Author: Karen E. Bohlin
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2005
Genre: Character
ISBN: 9780415322027

Offering guidance to teachers on including character education within their lessons, this book shows how teachers can provide an encounter with literature that enables students to be more responsive to ethical themes and questions.

Educating for Character

Educating for Character
Author: Thomas Lickona
Publisher: Bantam
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2009-09-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0307569489

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.

Character Education

Character Education
Author: Amanda Hall
Publisher: Carson Dellosa Education
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: Creative activities and seat work
ISBN: 9780887244568

Character education ideas and activities for the classroom.

The Wiley Handbook of Christianity and Education

The Wiley Handbook of Christianity and Education
Author: William Jeynes
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 698
Release: 2018-10-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1119098343

A comprehensive source that demonstrates how 21st century Christianity can interrelate with current educational trends and aspirations The Wiley Handbook of Christianity and Education provides a resource for students and scholars interested in the most important issues, trends, and developments in the relationship between Christianity and education. It offers a historical understanding of these two intertwined subjects with a view to creating a context for the myriad issues that characterize—and challenge—the relationship between Christianity and education today. Presented in three parts, the book starts with thought-provoking essays covering major issues in Christian education such as the movement away from God in American education; the Christian paradigm based on love and character vs. academic industrial models of American education; why religion is good for society, offenders, and prisons; the resurgence of vocational exploration and its integrative potential for higher education; and more. It then looks at Christianity and education around the globe—faith-based schooling in a pluralistic democracy; religious expectations in the Latino home; church-based and community-centered higher education; etc. The third part examines how humanity is determining the relationship between Christianity and education with chapters covering the use of Christian paradigm of living and learning; enrollment, student demographic, and capacity trends in Christian schools after the introduction of private schools; empirical studies on the perceptions of intellectual diversity at elite universities in the US; and more. Provides the breadth and depth of knowledge necessary to gain a sophisticated and nuanced understanding of the complex relationship between Christianity and education and its place in contemporary society A long overdue assessment of the subject, one that takes into account the enormous changes in Christian education Presents a global consideration of the subject Examines Christian education across elementary, secondary, and post-secondary levels The Wiley Handbook of Christianity and Education will be of great interest to Christian educators in the academic world, the teaching profession, the ministry, and the college and graduate level student body.

Education with Character

Education with Character
Author: James Arthur
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2003-08-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 113447184X

'Education with character' is the latest buzzphrase, but until now there's been no real concensus on some of the key issues. This book addresses the gap, adopting a cross-disciplinary approach to the matters in hand.