Moral education in America's schools : the continuing challenge

This book is not a comprehensive history of moral education in American schools. Rather, it is an episodic history that deals with selected periods, movements, and individuals throughout the course of American education history from the time of colonial Massachusetts in the 17th century up to presen...

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Main Authors Hunt, Thomas C., 1930- (Author), Mullins, Monalisa (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Pub., 2005.
Subjects
Moral education > United States > History.
Character > Study and teaching > United States > History.
Religion > Education.
Moral and social purpose of education.
Religious instruction.
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electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781918116731
DOI10.1108/978-1-60752-485-4
Physical Description1 online resource (xvii, 211 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Colonial beginnings
  • The Revolutionary era
  • The education of poor children : New York City and the Lancaster Method
  • Horace Mann's common school
  • The antebellum state normal school
  • Ante- and postbellum schooling in the South : Virginia, a case study
  • The nineteenth century parochial school
  • The Bible as a textbook of moral education
  • McGuffey readers
  • The "Americanizing" secular school
  • A special case : the freedmen
  • The early twentieth century : the "citizenship" focus
  • The impact of John Dewey on moral education
  • The Educational Policies commision
  • Kohlberg's stages of moral development
  • Values clarification
  • The character education movement.

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