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The Biggest Job We'll Ever Have
Scribner 2002; US$ 16.00ATTITUDE OVER APTITUDE. EFFORT OVER ACHIEVEMENT. CHARACTER OVER TALENT. For families, educators, corporations, and communities, The Biggest Job We'll Ever Have is nothing less than a new paradigm for reconnecting education with core values. With more than thirty-five years' experience at Hyde, an organization of internationally known, award-winning... more...
Skin Color and Identity Formation
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 44.95The focus of this study is on the ways in which skin color moderates the perceptions of opportunity and academic orientation of 17 Mexican and Puerto Rican high school students. More specifically, the study's analysis centered on cataloguing the racial/ethnic identification shifts (or not) in relation to how they perceive others situate them based... more...
Education for Values
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 57.95Values in education - how they are taught, the ethics of teaching itself, plus their role in the education of educators - is an area of lively and passionate debate. This book provides an essential resource of ideas, issues and current practice for all those with an interest in this area of education. Presenting a range of critical writing, this book... more...
Stories for Classroom and Assembly
RoutledgeFalmer 2003; US$ 47.50By emphasising the importance of 'the story' as a springboard to learning, this practical book for teachers consists of 15 learning sessions for use as one-hour classroom lessons or as the basis for a school assembly, pitched at the 4 - 8-year-old. more...
Ebonics
Multilingual Matters 2005; US$ 44.95This collection of papers, comments, and documents traces the distant and recent history of the Ebonics debate in the USA. The book examines how, despite increasing access to public education over the past century, schools continue to impose language standards and expectations on children that methodically privileges some, while disadvantaging others. more...
Building An Ethical School
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 61.95The author argues for much greater attention to ethical education and responds to sceptics who say that it can't be done in the face of a pluralistic secular society badly fragmented over values. Seeking always for themes and issues that unite rather than divide, the author provides a conceptual foundation for ethical education broad enough for building... more...
Education in Morality
Taylor and Francis 1999; US$ 176.00Offering a variety of perspectives on some of the most fundamental questions about moral education the volume is written in the belief that philosophy has an important contribution to make in bringing about a clearer understanding of the task of moral education. There is an international team of contributors including both philosophers and educationalists.... more...
Virtue Ethics and Moral Education
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 201.00This collection of original essays on virtue ethics and moral education seeks to fill this gap in the recent literature of moral education, combining broader analyses with detailed coverage of: * the varieties of virtue * weakness and integrity * relativism and rival traditions * means and methods of educating the virtues The rare collaboration of... more...
The Discourse of Character Education
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2005; US$ 58.95Peter Smagorinsky and Joel Taxel analyze the ways in which the perennial issue of character education has been articulated in the United States, both historically and in the current character education movement that began in earnest in the 1990s. The goal is to uncover the ideological nature of different conceptions of character education. more...
Education in the Moral Domain
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 34.00This volume applies research and theory to controversial issues such as the relation between morality and religious rules and cultural variation in moral values. It provides teachers with suggestions for how to establish a moral classroom climate, deal with student discipline, and contribute to students' development of the moral self. more...









