Broschiertes Buch

Character and Moral Education

A Reader

Herausgegeben: DeVitis, Joseph L.; Yu, Tianlong

Beschreibung

This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2012.
Against a formidable national discourse that emphasizes academic standardization, accountability, and high-stakes testing in educational policy, Character and Moral Education: A Reader seeks to re-introduce and revive the moral mission of education in public conversation and practices in America's schools. With contributions from a prominent array of scholars and practitioners, the book critically analyzes moral education, broadly defined as both an academic field that attempts to develop moral human beings, and as a principled discourse aimed at creating ethical educational policies and practices.
With theoretical rigor and practical wisdom, this volume offers diverse and cutting-edge scholarship on character and moral education in 21st-century schools. This timely and important book will appeal to all those concerned with both the ethical well-being of today's students, and the school's responsibility to prepare individuals to lead moral lives in the future.

Autor

Joseph L. DeVitis is Visiting Professor of Educational Foundations at Old Dominion University. Recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he is a widely published scholar and public intellectual in educational policy studies. He is a past president of the American Educational Studies Association, the Council of Learned Societies in Education, and the Society of Professors of Education. His most recent books are Critical Civic Literacy: A Reader (Peter Lang, 2011) and Adolescent Education: A Reader (Peter Lang, 2010), edited with Linda Irwin-DeVitis. Tianlong Yu is Associate Professor of Education at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, and a visiting Taishan Scholar Professor of Education at Shandong Normal University, China. Born and raised in China and educated in both China and the United States, he writes on the social foundations of education with a keen interest in issues of moral education and multicultural education.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 311099
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 434
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 661g
• ISBN-13: 9781433110993
• ISBN-10: 1433110997
• Artikelnr.: 33684572

Rezensionen

«It is often said, rightly, that education is a necessarily normative activity, i.e., that moral questions 'come with the territory' of educational theory and practice. This collection respects that claim while adding the critical element of expanding the territory by providing fresh interpretations of character and moral education to questions of ideology, peace, globalism, ecology, feminism, and the larger questions of what it means to be a citizen in social groups struggling to become democratic communities. DeVitis, Yu, and their contributors offer a necessary and important addition to our understanding of those issues. I highly recommend their work.» (James Giarelli, Professor and Chair, Department of Educational Theory, Policy, and Administration, Rutgers University)
«Joseph L. DeVitis and Tianlong Yu have gathered a wide-ranging, significant set of perspectives on character and moral education. In so doing, they have provided the educational community a timely and useful resource.» (David Hansen, Professor and Director, Program in Philosophy and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University)