Character education: Reclaiming the social

Educational Theory

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 119-130

  Duncan, Barbara J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 33744985945     PISSN: 00132004     EISSN: 17415446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-5446.1997.00119.x     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. See, for example, William Kilpatrick Why Johnny Can't Tell Right From Wrong (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992); David Carr, Educating the Virtues: An Essay on the Philosophical Psychology of Moral Development and Education (New York: Routledge, 1991); Thomas Lickona, What is Good Character! And How Can We Develop It in Our Children! (Bloomington, Ind.: Poyntcr Center, 1991); Melinda Fine, Habits of Mind, Struggling Over Values in America's Classrooms (San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 1995); and William Bennett, The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993).
2. Jacques S. Benninga, ed., Moral, Character, and Civic Education in the Elementary School (New York: Teachers College Press, 1991). This book will be referred to as MCCE with page numbers in the text for all subsequent citations. Edward A. Wynne and Kevin Ryan, Reclaiming Our Schools; A Handbook on Teaching Character, Academics, and Discipline, 1st ed. (New York: Macmillan, 1993). This book will be referred to as RS with page numbers in the text for all subsequent citations.
3. See Martha Nussbaum, The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy (Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 1986); Betty Sichel, "Beyond Moral Stories, " in Philosophy of Education 1996, ed. Frank Margonis (Urbana, III.: Philosophy of Education Society, forthcoming); Betty Sichell, Moral Education: Character, Community, and Ideals (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988); Mark B. Tappan, "Narrative, Language, and Moral Experience, " Journal of Moral Education 20, no. 3 (1991): 243-56;Jo Anne Pagano, "Relating to One's Students: Identity, Morality, Stones, and Questions, " Journal of Moral Education 20, no. 3 (1991): 257-66; Nel Noddings, Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984); and Robert Coles, The Moral Life of Children (Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986).
4. See also, Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987] and Kilpatrick, Why Johnny Can't Tell Right From Wrong
5. Andrew Kaplan, "Conversing about Character; New Foundations for General Education, " Educational Theory 45, no. 3 (Summer 1995): 360.
6. According to Wynne and Ryan, "the term characterizes high schools with strong patterns of work avoidance by many pupils and teachers....Such systems [elective course selection] license disengaged pupils to take gut courses" (RS, pp. 6-7). See A.G. Powell, E. Farrar, and D. Cohen, The Shopping Mall High School (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1985).
7. Sichel, "Beyond Moral Stories."
8. Tappan, "Narrative, Language, and Moral Experience, " 245.
9. Alasdair Maclntyre, After Virtue (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1984), 216.
10. Martha Nussbaum, The Fragility of Goodness, 13.
11. Richard Roland, "Knowledge Work Gone Adrift in the Information Age, " The 8th Daniel Alpert Lecture at the University of Illinois, 11 April 1996.
12. M.B. Tappan, "Narrative, Language, and Moral Experience, " Journal of Moral Education 20, no. 3 (1991): 246.
13. Sichel, "Beyond Moral Stories."
14. Doris Lessing, The Memoirs of a Survivor (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1975), 55.
15. Tappan, "Narrative, Language, and Moral Experience, " 251-52.
16. Sichel, Moral Education, 140.
17. Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger, Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation (Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 101.
18. John Dewey, Democracy and Education (New York, Macmillan: 1916, 1944), 46.
19. Rice, "Dewey's Conception of 'Virtue' and its Implications for Moral Education" Educational Theory, 46, no. 3 (Summer 1996): 276-77.
20. John Dewey, Human Nature and Conduct, in The Middle Works of John Dewey, vol. 14, ed. Jo Ann Boydston (Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 1988), 21.
21. Rice, "Dewey's Conception of 'Virtue, '" 282.