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Moral education in America's schools : the continuing challenge /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hunt, Thomas C., 1930-2014
Other Authors: Mullins, Monalisa
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Greenwich, Conn. : Information Age Publishing, [2005]
Subjects:
Moral education > United States > History.
Character > Study and teaching > United States > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Colonial beginnings
  • The Revolutionary era
  • The education of poor children : New York City and the Lancaster Method
  • Horace Mann's common school
  • The antebellum state normal school
  • Ante- and postbellum schooling in the South : Virginia, a case study
  • The nineteenth century parochial school
  • The Bible as a textbook of moral education
  • McGuffey readers
  • The "Americanizing" secular school
  • A special case : the freedmen
  • The early twentieth century : the "citizenship" focus
  • The impact of John Dewey on moral education
  • The Educational Policies commission
  • Kohlberg's stages of moral development
  • Values clarification
  • The character education movement.