Moral questions in the classroom :
SIMON, Katherine G.
Moral questions in the classroom : how to get kids to think deeply about real life and their schoolwork / Katherine G. Simon ; foreword by Theodore R. Sizer and Nancy Faust Sizer - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2001. - xv, 288p. 23cm.
Includes bibliography and index
This is a particularly timely book, given the moral and ethical discussions taking place in classrooms since the terrorist attacks on the U.S., starting with revenge versus justice. Using interviews with teachers and students in public, Catholic, and Jewish schools and her experience as a high-school teacher, Simon examines how teachers explore moral and existential issues in the course of teaching standard school curricula. Simon advocates that teachers encourage exploration of moral issues to develop students' moral as well as intellectual skills--and because research, most notably by Robert Coles, has shown that young people are interested in such issues.
0-300-10168-6
Educational Philosophy
373.01140973 SIM
Moral questions in the classroom : how to get kids to think deeply about real life and their schoolwork / Katherine G. Simon ; foreword by Theodore R. Sizer and Nancy Faust Sizer - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2001. - xv, 288p. 23cm.
Includes bibliography and index
This is a particularly timely book, given the moral and ethical discussions taking place in classrooms since the terrorist attacks on the U.S., starting with revenge versus justice. Using interviews with teachers and students in public, Catholic, and Jewish schools and her experience as a high-school teacher, Simon examines how teachers explore moral and existential issues in the course of teaching standard school curricula. Simon advocates that teachers encourage exploration of moral issues to develop students' moral as well as intellectual skills--and because research, most notably by Robert Coles, has shown that young people are interested in such issues.
0-300-10168-6
Educational Philosophy
373.01140973 SIM