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  title info:
    title: Building more stately mansions
    sub title: the impact of teachers and literature on the development of student values
  name:
    name part: Cheek, Carole Jean Maxwell
    name part: 1944-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Shutes, Robert E.
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Barker, Donald G.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Campbell, Jack K.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Stansell, John C.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1992
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 147 leaves ; 29 cm
  abstract: This investigation examined the impact of teachers and literature on the development of student values. The sample consisted of six high school English teachers and twenty-four high school students, evenly divided across grades 10, 11, and 12. All the teachers and students were interviewed, then observed in their classroom while a literary piece was being taught and discussed. Each literary piece was later analyzed to identify values inherent in its content, and then the results of the analyses of the texts, the interviews of teachers and students, and the classroom observations were compared. The teachers and students were interviewed according to a specific protocol, and the classroom observation and literature analysis data were collected on an instrument designed to focus on value-laden terms and concepts. Because the findings from every data source could be triangulated against two or three alternate sources, it was possible to confirm the accuracy of each data set with considerable confidence. The results of the study revealed that the teachers and students were all aware of the moral import of literature and the potential for moral education through literature. Moreover, the teachers employed strategies which focused on the moral component in literature and provided numerous opportunities for discussion of value-laden topics occurring in the literature studied. The classroom observations showed that morals and values were a major focus of classroom discussion regarding literature, and the literature assessments provided concrete evidence of the moral content of the literature studied. There was a high level of consistency within grade levels regarding specific values articulated in classroom discussions, and the articulated values were many times also identified in the literature assessment. However, each observed classroom also generated entirely unique and legitimate data regarding the same literary piece, data which did not match with the other classroom r…
  note: Typescript (photocopy).
  note: Vita.
  note: "Major subject: Curriculum and Instruction."
  note: Ph. D. Texas A & M University 1992
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Literature
    topic: Study and teaching (Secondary)
  subject:
    topic: Moral education (Secondary)
  subject:
    topic: Literature and morals
  subject:
    topic: Major curriculum and instruction
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  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 930319
    record change date: 20200904152615.0
    record identifier: in00001116734
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng