Good? Bad? Or None of the above?: The Unavoidable Mandate to Teach Character

Autor/in	Damon, William
Titel	Good? Bad? Or None of the above?: The Unavoidable Mandate to Teach Character
Quelle	In: Education Next, 5 (2005) 2, S.20-27 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1539-9664
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Ethical Instruction; Personality; Public Schools; Moral Values; Values Education; Citizenship Education; School Role; Student Behavior; Altruism; Ethics; Educational Environment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethics instruction; Teaching of ethics; Ethikunterricht; Personalität; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Werterziehung; Citizenship; Education; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Student behaviour; Schülerverhalten; Altruistic behavior; Altruismus; Ethik; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt
Abstract	It is an odd mark of this time that the first question people ask about character education is whether public schools should be doing it at all. The question is odd because it invites everyone to imagine that schooling, which occupies about a third of a child's waking time, somehow could be arranged to play no role in the formation of a child's character. For better or worse, every school envelops its students in a moral climate. The choices that the school makes--or fails to make--about what sort of moral climate to create inevitably leave lasting marks on the students who live and learn there. The contemporary character-education movement has been misled by the trendy notion that children's positive feelings are the key to all sorts of learning, moral as well as academic. Instead, schools must present students with objective standards expressed in a moral language that sharply distinguishes right from wrong and directs them to behave accordingly. A school must help students understand that they are expected to be honest, fair, compassionate, and respectful, whether it makes them feel good or not. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Hoover Institution. Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-6010. Tel: 800-935-2882; Fax: 650-723-8626; e-mail: educationnext@hoover.stanford.edu; Web site: http://www.hoover.org/publications/ednext
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10