Author: Margaret Dodson
Publisher: Eric Clearinghouse on Reading
ISBN: 9780927516310
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 173
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Book Description
Designed to tap the rich collection of instructional techniques in the ERIC database, this compilation of lesson plans focuses on teaching values using literature as an alternative to textbooks. The 41 lesson plans in this book cover: (1) setting up an English curriculum in values; (2) ways to help students find out about their values; (3) individual ethics and personal morals; (4) social ethics and political morality; and (5) environmental values. The book includes an activities chart which indicates the focus and types of activities (such as role play, poetry, games, group activities, and writing skills) found in the various lessons. A 155-item annotated bibliography contains references to research and additional resources. (RS)
Author: Sharon Vincz Andrews
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Book Description
Designed for teachers and arguing that democratic values are best taught in democratic classrooms, this hands-on guide offers clear directions for exploring values using children's literature as a starting point. Combining numerous classroom examples with practical advice, backed up by historical analysis and educational theory, the book: (1) discusses crucial questions, such as the defining of values and how to teach values; (2) provides clear examples of how inquiry- and literature-based investigation of values work in classrooms; (3) presents instructional strategies that promote self-directed discovery of values; (4) offers a unique bibliography of literature that guides children in their values exploration; and (5) provides an analysis of textbooks and their connection to moral education. Includes an additional select annotated bibliography. Contains 147 references. (NKA)
Author: Suzanne S. Choo
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100040630X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Book Description
Teaching Ethics through Literature provides in-depth understanding of a new and exciting shift in the fields of English education, Literature, Language Arts, and Literacy through exploring their connections with ethics. The book pioneers an approach to integrating ethics in the teaching of literature. This has become increasingly relevant and necessary in our globally connected age. A key feature of the book is its integration of theory and practice. It begins with a historical survey of the emergence of the ethical turn in Literature education and grounds this on the ideas of influential Ethical Philosophers and Literature scholars. Most importantly, it provides insights into how teachers can engage students in ethical concerns and apply practices of Ethical Criticism using rich on-the-ground case studies of high school Literature teachers in Australia, Singapore and the United States.
Author: Richard Eyre
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439147655
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Book Description
One of the greatest gifts you can give your children is a strong sense of personal values. Helping your children develop values such as honesty, self-reliance, and dependability is as important a part of their education as teaching them to read or how to cross the street safely. The values you teach your children are their best protection from the influences of peer pressure and the temptations of consumer culture. With their own values clearly defined, your children can make their own decisions -- rather than imitate their friends or the latest fashions. In Teaching Your Children Values Linda and Richard Eyre present a practical, proven, month-by-month program of games, family ctivities, and value-building ecercises for kids of all ages.
Author: Bill Johnston
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135632111
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Book Description
This book offers a new perspective on language teaching by placing moral issues--that is, questions of values--at the core of what it is to be a teacher. The teacher-student relation is central to this view, rather than the concept of language teaching as merely a technical matter of managing students' acquisition of language. The message is that all language teaching involves an interplay of deeply held values, but in each teaching situation these values are played out in different ways. Johnston does not tell readers what to think, but only suggests what to think about. Values in English Language Teaching explores the complex and often contradictory moral landscape of the language classroom, gradually revealing how teaching is not a matter of clear-cut choices but of wrestling with dilemmas and making difficult decisions in situations often riven with conflict. It examines the underlying values that teachers hold as individuals and as members of their profession, and demonstrates how those values are played out in the real world of language classrooms. Matters addressed include connections between the moral and political dimensions in English language teaching, and between values and religious beliefs; relationship(s) between teacher identity and values; the meaning of professionalism and how it is associated with morality and values; the ways in which teacher development is a moral issue; and the marginality of English language teaching. All the examples are taken from real-life teaching situations--the complexity and messiness of these situations is always acknowledged, including both individual influences and broader social, cultural, and political forces at play in English language classrooms. By using actual situations as the starting point for analysis, Johnston offers a philosophy based in practice, and recognizes the primacy of lived experience as a basis for moral analysis. Examples come from teaching contexts around the world, including Brazil, Thailand, Poland, Japan, Central African Republic, Turkey, and Taiwan, as well as various settings in the United States. This book will change the way teachers see language classrooms--their own or those of others. It is a valuable resource for teachers of ESL and EFL and all those who work with them, especially teacher educators, researchers, and administrators.
Author: William Kilpatrick
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671884239
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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William Kilpatrick's recent book Why Johnny Can't Tell Right from Wrong convinced thousands that reading is one of the most effective ways to combat moral illiteracy and build a child's character. This follow-up book--featuring evaluations of more than 300 books for children--will help parents and teachers put his key ideas into practice.
Author: Jo Cairns
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134732139
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Values in education, in terms of both how they are taught and of the ethics of teaching itself, are an area of lively debate. This text provides a resource of ideas, issues and practice for all those with an interest in this area of education.
Author: Ron Scapp
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000446158
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Book Description
In Teaching Values, Ron Scapp wrests the discussion of values and values-based education away from traditionalists who have long dominated educational debates. While challenging the Right's domination of the discussion of values education, Scapp examines some issues not typically raised by educators and critics on the Left, including the positive role of citizenship and national identity in U.S. education and culture.
Author: Wendy Rosen
Publisher: Modern Publishing
ISBN: 0766619869
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Max learns the do's and don'ts of restaurant manners with help from his big sister, Lily.
Author: Charles Suhor
Publisher: Eric Clearinghouse on Reading
ISBN: 9780927516327
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 245
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Book Description
This book debates the values being taught in American public schools. The book considers whether moral, ethical, social, and religious values of any kind should be taught or inculcated in the public school setting--specifically, should the values embodied in the literature typically read in English literature classrooms be advocated by the teachers, or ought the literary and historical discussion of meaningful texts be used by teachers as an opportunity to help students work towards clarity about their own values? The debate presented in this book is another engagement in the ongoing struggle to shape the value structures of young Americans, and the opposing viewpoints which form the substance of the book are those of two educator brothers, Bernard and Charles Suhor. Chapters in the book are: "Religion at School: A Word from the Moderator" (Carl B. Smith); "Values in the Teaching of Literature--A Public School View" (Charles Suhor); "Values in the Teaching of Literature--A Catholic School View" (Bernard Suhor); "Response to Bernard Suhor" (Charles Suhor); "Response to Charles Suhor" (Bernard Suhor); "Further Comment" (Charles Suhor); and "Further Comment" (Bernard Suhor). The book concludes with a 158-item annotated bibliography of resources containing activities and ideas for clarification from the ERIC database. (NKA)
