Politics of Character Education

Educational Policy

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 188-215

  Howard, Robert W ^a,b   Berkowitz, Marvin W ^c,d   Schaeffer, Esther F ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Sacramento City Unified School District   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^d Marquette University   (United States)

^e Dept of Character Educ Partnership ^*

Author keywords

Character development; Character education; Civics; Ethics; Philosophy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0742323649     PISSN: 08959048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0895904803260031     Document Type: Review

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