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Moral questions in the classroom : how to get kids to think deeply about real life and their schoolwork
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Moral questions in the classroom : how to get kids to think deeply about real life and their schoolwork

Author: Katherine G Simon
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2001.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"This book investigates how schools can responsibly take an active role in moral education while honoring their academic mission. Using extensive observations in public, Catholic, and Jewish high schools, Katherine Simon analyzes the ways in which teachers avoid or address moral questions raised by students and implicit in course materials. She examines how morally charged issues may be taught responsibly in a  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Case studies
Cas, Études de
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Katherine G Simon
ISBN: 0300090323 9780300090321 9780300101683 0300101686
OCLC Number: 46928873
Description: xv, 288 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Place of meaning --
What is moral education? --
Three high schools and a researcher --
"We could argue about that all day": missed opportunities for exploring moral questions --
"It makes you think": sustained discussions of moral and existential questions --
From the sublime to the mundane: religion courses in religious schools --
Whose values will get taught? the challenge of pluralism --
Case for systemic reform --
Strategies and tools for incorporating moral and existential questions into the classroom.
Responsibility: Katherine G. Simon.

Abstract:

"This book investigates how schools can responsibly take an active role in moral education while honoring their academic mission. Using extensive observations in public, Catholic, and Jewish high schools, Katherine Simon analyzes the ways in which teachers avoid or address moral questions raised by students and implicit in course materials. She examines how morally charged issues may be taught responsibly in a diverse democracy. And in an afterword that teachers and teacher educators will find particularly useful, Simon provides practical tools and strategies for structuring discussion and designing units to help teachers explore moral issues more deeply with their middle and high school students."--BOOK JACKET.

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