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Bringing in a New Era in Character Education - Hoover Institution Press Publication | Essential Guide for Teachers & Parents | Classroom & Homeschool Learning Resource
Bringing in a New Era in Character Education - Hoover Institution Press Publication | Essential Guide for Teachers & Parents | Classroom & Homeschool Learning Resource
Bringing in a New Era in Character Education - Hoover Institution Press Publication | Essential Guide for Teachers & Parents | Classroom & Homeschool Learning Resource

Bringing in a New Era in Character Education - Hoover Institution Press Publication | Essential Guide for Teachers & Parents | Classroom & Homeschool Learning Resource

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The educational system in the United States has ended its failed experiment with separating the intellectual from the moral. Schools from K–12 to colleges and universities are increasingly paying attention to students’ values and character. But how can we ensure this new era in character education makes the right kind of difference to young people? What obstacles in our current educational system must we overcome, and what new opportunities can we create? This anthology offers unique perspectives on what is needed to make character education an effective, lasting part of our educational agenda. Each chapter points out the directions that character education must take today and offers strategies essential for progress. The expert contributors reveal why relativism has threatened the moral development of young people in our time—and how we can pass core values down to new generations of students in ways that will elevate their conduct and their life goals. And they show the critical importance of reestablishing student morality and character as targets of higher education’s central mission. Perhaps most important, they clarify the necessity of authority in any moral education endeavor—and show how it is a powerful force for developing personal freedom and building character.

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I think this edited book is one of William Damon's best, because he brings together nine writers who each take a position on the prospects and future of character education in American schools and universities. The essays are very well written and integrated, and are accessible to upper high school and college-level readers.Damon's position is that character education has been neglected because of "false oppositions" (either-or propositions), such as "individual vs. the community," "secular vs. the religious," and so on. These oppositions are false because each "side" of the argument stems from adult perspectives, not the ideas and imaginations of developing children. Additionally, advocates for each "side" fail to use the logic of "both-and" propositions.As Damon says, "I have never heard of a youngster being harmed by witnessing another person's expression of spirituality, even when the form of spirituality is highly unfamiliar to the child. On the contrary, young persons are usually moved and fascinated..." (p. xiii-xiv). This is an example of how he wishes to understand the development of children and adolescents in areas of moral and character development.The essays concern (1) how to transmit moral values when the transcendant American value is the "autonomous self;" (2) how character education is based on valid, scientific developmental psychology; (3) how to educate youngsters by "moral exemplarity" and by building a democratic community; and (4) how most Americans really are very united on the values that underpin character education.I hope you enjoy this book.
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