It's Hard to Be Good
Moral Complexity, Construction, and Connection in a Kindergarten Classroom
(Sprache: Englisch)
Should our public schools expressly teach morality? If so, which morality? Whose morality? How would we teach morality in school? At a time when many school communities are either trying to "keep morality out of school," or are implementing character...
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Should our public schools expressly teach morality? If so, which morality? Whose morality? How would we teach morality in school? At a time when many school communities are either trying to "keep morality out of school," or are implementing character education curricula that focus primarily on modifying individual behaviors, this book argues that schooling is always an inherently moral activity in that children are constantly learning, and expanding, sets of social values in school - they are learning how they are expected to be and act as students and citizens, while at the same time forcing adults to expand their own expectations.This constant moral education resides not in the content of the curriculum but in the everyday interactions between teachers and students. In this ethnographic exploration of school morality, Brian McCadden describes how these interactions occur and what moral meanings Mrs. Hooper, a kindergarten teacher, and her students make from them. He explores how morality is constructed in school. His aim is to demystify the process of constructing morality so that it may become a more overt, thoughtful, and purposeful aspect of schooling.
Autoren-Porträt von Brian McCadden
The Author: Brian M. McCadden is Assistant Professor of Education at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. His research focuses on linking the sociology of knowledge with moral education, in understanding the place of ritual in schooling, and in reclaiming narrative morality.
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- Autor: Brian McCadden
- 1998, Neuausg., XXII, 130 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Maße: 15,1 x 22,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Peter Lang
- ISBN-10: 0820433802
- ISBN-13: 9780820433806
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.04.1998
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Englisch
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Our beliefs about morality are like our beliefs about schools. Our school is just fine, but those other schools are suspect; our morals are just fine, but those other people's morals are suspect. The more people differ from us the more we suspect they lack morals. It is not just that they might have different morals - we see them lacking 'morality'. Brian McCadden shows us in this book how central this pattern is to how we socialize moral children in our most public of institutions - the schools... Dr. McCadden is an able guide as we learn how morality gets constructed in schools and society. He understands moral philosophy and the contradictions the real world sociology of schools brings to moral philosophy. Most important, he has gotten close to the lives of children and teachers who are making morality in fundamental ways. (George W. Noblit, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
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"Our beliefs about morality are like our beliefs about schools. Our school is just fine, but those other schools are suspect; our morals are just fine, but those other people's morals are suspect. The more people differ from us the more we suspect they lack morals. It is not just that they might have different morals - we see them lacking 'morality'. Brian McCadden shows us in this book how central this pattern is to how we socialize moral children in our most public of institutions - the schools... Dr. McCadden is an able guide as we learn how morality gets constructed in schools and society. He understands moral philosophy and the contradictions the real world sociology of schools brings to moral philosophy. Most important, he has gotten close to the lives of children and teachers who are making morality in fundamental ways." (George W. Noblit, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)Kommentar zu "It's Hard to Be Good"
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