Sowing the Seeds of Character

The Moral Education of Adolescents in Public and Private Schools

AvJudd Kruger Levingston

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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A rabbi and educator shows how moral education can be crafted to address each of the three main branches of the moral life: philosophy, civics, and ethics.Sowing the Seeds of Character: The Moral Education of Adolescents in Public and Private Schools is a book for all teachers and parents. It rests on the premise that the moral education of students falls within the purview of schools, whether they assume responsibility for it or not. Regardless of the place of moral education in the formal curriculum, all teachers serve as moral exemplars to their students, for good or for ill. Teachers of science, social studies, history, and literature courses cannot help but inculcate moral sensibility and attitudes in their students by the ways in which they lead them to grapple with—or glide over—the moral implications of what they teach. Judd Kruger Levingston draws many lessons and examples from his extensive research and teaching experience in Muslim, Jewish, Roman Catholic, public, Quaker, and Chinese schools. He argues that teachers should become proficient in directing role-playing simulations of moral decision-making as morally complex topics arise within the standard curriculum.

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Utgivningsdatum:2009-06-08
Mått:156 x 235 x 16 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:204
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780313351914

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Judd Kruger Levingston is a rabbi and educator. He lives in Philadelphia where he teaches at a Jewish day school and at Temple University.

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Rabbi and educator Levingston (Jewish studies, Barrack Hebrew Academy, and Temple U., Philadelphia) has taught and served as an administrator in a variety of middle and high schools, and holds a doctorate in moral education from the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York. He argues that moral education is not a luxury but rather a self-conscious and deliberate effort to teach young people about integrity, respect, care for oneself, care for the world, and principles of justice and freedom. Drawing on his own professional and personal experiences and from research in Muslim, Jewish, Roman Catholic, public, Quaker, and Chinese schools, he offers suggestions on how educators can incorporate moral education into the existing curriculum through their own examples, through critical thinking and role-playing exercises, and through real-world applications to peer interactions outside the classroom. For educators, policymakers, and parents.

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Series ForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: From Baseball Fields to Schools1 Did You Ask a Good Question Today? Questions at the Heart of Moral Education2 Character Studies: Three Moral Outlooks and the Role of Gender3 Authentic and Assured4 Bridging and Binding5 Constructing and Considering6 Play: Getting into CharacterAppendix: Interview ProtocolsNotesBibliographyIndex