George W. Noblit is Professor of Social Foundations of Education with a joint appointment in Educational Leadership at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the co-editor (with William Pink) of Schooling in Social Context and co-author (with R. Dwight Hare) of Meta-Ethnography: Synthesizing Qualitative Studies. Van O. Dempsey is Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations at West Virginia University.

"The authors show that building community is at the heart of education, and that the construction of virtue is achieved by ordinary people in ordinary schools, doing things together, experiencing successes, failures, conflict tensions, and celebrations." — Mary E. Henry, Washington State University

• Acknowledgments 1. Education and the Social Construction of Virtue 2. Ideas That Bind and Blind 3. Cedar Grove School 4. Rougemont School 5. Books and the Power of Narrative 6. Reclaiming Moral Life with Schools References Index

George W. Noblit is Professor of Social Foundations of Education with a joint appointment in Educational Leadership at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the co-editor (with William Pink) of Schooling in Social Context and co-author (with R. Dwight Hare) of Meta-Ethnography: Synthesizing Qualitative Studies. Van O. Dempsey is Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations at West Virginia University.

"The authors show that building community is at the heart of education, and that the construction of virtue is achieved by ordinary people in ordinary schools, doing things together, experiencing successes, failures, conflict tensions, and celebrations." — Mary E. Henry, Washington State University

• Acknowledgments 1. Education and the Social Construction of Virtue 2. Ideas That Bind and Blind 3. Cedar Grove School 4. Rougemont School 5. Books and the Power of Narrative 6. Reclaiming Moral Life with Schools References Index

George W. Noblit is Professor of Social Foundations of Education with a joint appointment in Educational Leadership at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the co-editor (with William Pink) of Schooling in Social Context and co-author (with R. Dwight Hare) of Meta-Ethnography: Synthesizing Qualitative Studies. Van O. Dempsey is Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations at West Virginia University.

"The authors show that building community is at the heart of education, and that the construction of virtue is achieved by ordinary people in ordinary schools, doing things together, experiencing successes, failures, conflict tensions, and celebrations." — Mary E. Henry, Washington State University

• Acknowledgments 1. Education and the Social Construction of Virtue 2. Ideas That Bind and Blind 3. Cedar Grove School 4. Rougemont School 5. Books and the Power of Narrative 6. Reclaiming Moral Life with Schools References Index