Moral questions in the classroom : how to get kids to think deeply about real life and their schoolwork /
"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 raise...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2001]
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Table of 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.
