Moral Matters: Five Ways to Develop the Moral

Most of us agree that moral matters, but how does it fit into the context of our schools? This timely book explores the ways that K-12 educators have attempted to make the moral visible in American schooling over the past 25 years. Since A Nation at Risk, most educators and policymakers have focused on the academic dimensions of schooling guided by standards and testing. This book surveys a committed group of educators who have continued to shed light on the moral dimensions of teaching and learning.

Barbara S. Stengel is a professor of educational foundations at Millersville University (Pennsylvania)

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
"Teach Children Character"	p. 2
"Not One Way"	p. 4
"Some Character Flaw"	p. 6
A Framework for Engagement	p. 7
Organization of the Book	p. 9
The Moral Resurgent	p. 12
The Rise of Academic Accountability	p. 13
The Emergence of Character Education	p. 16
Broadening the Moral in Theory	p. 17
Broadening the Moral in Practice	p. 20
Constructing the Categories	p. 23
Meaning in Use: The Moral and the Academic	p. 24
Why the Moral Raises a Red Flag	p. 30
Uncovering the Moral	p. 35
Constructing the Categories	p. 36
Where We Began	p. 43
The Separate Category	p. 45
Making the Case for Character Education	p. 47
Service Learning	p. 52
The Ethics of Teaching	p. 56
Possibilities and Dangers	p. 60
The Sequential Category	p. 66
Which Comes First?	p. 66
Possibilities and Dangers	p. 78
The Dominant Category	p. 81
Academic Dominant	p. 81
Moral Dominant	p. 89
Possibilities and Dangers	p. 94
The Transformative Category	p. 97
C-School's Relational Education	p. 98
Nel Noddings's Caring Curriculum	p. 101
David Purpel and the Teacher as Prophet	p. 104
Ted Sizer and Horace's School	p. 107
Possibilities and Dangers	p. 111
The Integrated Category	p. 115
Teaching for Social Justice	p. 116
Habits of Mind for Democratic Education	p. 120
Accessing the "Culture of Power"	p. 122
Democracy and Christian Tradition	p. 125
Education as Spiritual Journey	p. 128
The Moral Inheres in the Practice	p. 129
Possibilities and Dangers	p. 130
Mapping the Moral Terrain	p. 134
Is That All There Is?	p. 135
Critical Markers	p. 138
What the Categories Teach Us	p. 140
Acting As If the Moral Matters	p. 144
Ideological Standpoint(s)	p. 146
Minding the Gaps	p. 148
Conclusion	p. 149
References	p. 151
Index	p. 163
About the Authors	p. 175
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Moral Matters: Five Ways to Develop the Moral Life of Schools

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