Building character in schools : practical ways to bring moral instruction to life / Kevin Ryan, Karen E. Bohlin ; foreword by Sanford N. McDonnell
- Bib ID:
- 553046
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Ryan, Kevin
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- Table of Contents
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c1999
- xxii, 280 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0787943444 (acid-free and chlorinefree paper) (cloth)
- Summary:
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Building Character in Schools clearly defines the responsibilities of adults and students in modeling and nurturing character and sets forth practical guidelines for schools seeking to become "communities of virtue where responsibility, hard work, honesty, and kindness are modeled, taught, expected, celebrated, and continually practiced."
- Full contents:
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- Character education : what is it and why is it important?
- Views, values, or virtues?
- Building community of virtue
- Cultivating character through the curriculum
- Engaging parents in character education
- The teacher's work : nurturing character
- Helping students take command
- The character education manifesto
- Seven-point program
- An overview of the virtues
- The Montclair Kimberly Academy declaration
- The Boston University educators affirmation
- Character quotes
- One hundred ways to bring character education to life
- Pitfalls to avoid in character education
- Ten commandments for parents
- Exemplary moral education curricula
- Sample mini-unit : "Jonah and the whale"
- Sample mini-unit : Sadako and the thousand paper cranes
- Sample mini-unit : The little prince.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-269) and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Bohlin, Karen E
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1999
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