This work delves into the topic of moral education in America's K-12 schools. Following an introductory historical chapter, it analyzes salient topics and notable leaders in the field of moral education. It treats the issues thoroughly and fairly, providing a heightened understanding of both the major and minor themes in moral education.

Moral Education [2 volumes]: A Handbook [2 volumes]

Education & Teaching

Hunt, Thomas C.

Narvaez, Darcia

Power, F. Clark

Nuzzi, Ronald J.

Lapsley, Daniel K.

Schools & Teaching

Praeger

This book should be of interest to undergraduates of philosophy.

Invitation to Philosophy: Issues and Options

Politics & Social Sciences

Honer, Stanley M.

Okholm, Dennis L.

Philosophy

Wadsworth Pub. Co.

This concise text covers the basic topics in philosophy (for example, epistemology, postmodernism, and cultural relativism). Chapters include an examination of the topic, thought-provoking questions, and a continum designed to help students appreciate the many options available to them when answering a question in philosophy.

Wadsworth Publishing

Using an issues-and-options approach, in a handbook format, this text deals with each major topic in philosophy by using a succinct, relevant, and readable presentation and critique of the representative options within each topic. A continuum helps students see the options available to answer a variety of basic questions and the relationship each option has to the others. The options found on the continuum are discussed and followed by a case study drawn from contemporary life that helps students to apply the options.

Using an issues-and-options approach, in a handbook format, this text deals with each major topic in philosophy by using a succinct, relevant, and readable presentation and critique of the representative options (e.g., schools of thought, individual philosophers) within each topic. A continuum helps students see the options available to answer a variety of basic questions and the relationship each option has to the others. The options found on the continuum are discussed and followed by a case study drawn from contemporary life that helps students to apply the options.

First ponder the concepts, then discover how experts debate it. INVITATION TO PHILOSOPHY: ISSUES AND OPTIONS walks you through each major topic in philosophy using language you can understand, shows you how it's all connected, and manages to be entertaining at the same time.

Safford, John L.

Cengage Learning'

With articles dealing with denomination, law, public policy and financing this anthology grants an evenhanded view of the impact of religion on our nation's public schools.

Religion and Schooling in Contemporary America: Confronting Our Cultural Pluralism (Source Books on Education)

Carper, James C.

Religion & Spirituality

Routledge

The history of American schooling is replete with evidence of the American proclivity to seek the panacea. The American education landscape is dotted with educational reformers, who in their zeal proclaimed that the sure-fire remedy they were proposing was a cinch to completely solve a given challenge or problem. Their proposed magic elixir, advanced with total confidence, would take effect after the time of its implementation and would bring paradise in at least part of the educational world. Indigenous to this position is educators’ steadfast unwillingness to learn from the wisdom of the accumulated past resulting in a never-ending parade of reforms. Though these reforms are often worthwhile in themselves – with some of more worth than others, they share the same fate and suffer a similar unhappy ending, only to see the process born again and begun anew.

The Impossible Dream: Education and the Search for Panaceas (History of Schools and Schooling)

History

Americas

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

During the mid-nineteenth century, Americans created the functional equivalent of earlier state religious establishments. Supported by mandatory taxation, purportedly inclusive, and vested with messianic promise, public schooling, like the earlier established churches, was touted as a bulwark of the Republic and as an essential agent of moral and civic virtue. As was the case with dissenters from early American established churches, some citizens and religious minorities have dissented from the public school system, what historian Sidney Mead calls the country’s «established church.» They have objected to the «orthodoxy» of the public school, compulsory taxation, and attempts to abolish their schools or bring them into conformity with the state school paradigm. The Dissenting Tradition in American Education recounts episodes of Catholic and Protestant nonconformity since the inception of public education, including the creation of Catholic and Protestant schools, homeschooling, conflicts regarding regulation of nonconforming schools, and controversy about the propositions of knowledge and dispositions of belief and value sanctioned by the state school. Such dissent suggests that Americans consider disestablishing the public school and ponder means of education more suited to their confessional pluralism and commitments to freedom of conscience, parental liberty, and educational justice.

The Dissenting Tradition in American Education

Carper, James

First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Catholic School Education (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)

Grant, Mary A

Garland Science

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Moral Education [2 volumes]: A Handbook [2 volumes]

Invitation to Philosophy: Issues and Options

Invitation to Philosophy: Issues and Options

Invitation to Philosophy: Issues and Options

Invitation to Philosophy: Issues and Options

Invitation to Philosophy: Issues and Options

Religion and Schooling in Contemporary America: Confronting Our Cultural Pluralism (Source Books on Education)

The Impossible Dream: Education and the Search for Panaceas (History of Schools and Schooling)

The Dissenting Tradition in American Education

Catholic School Education (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)