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- catalog abstract ""This book investigates how schools can responsibly take an active role in moral education while honoring their academic mission. Using extensive observations in public, Catholic, and Jewish high schools, Katherine Simon analyzes the ways in which teachers avoid or address moral questions raised by students and implicit in course materials. She examines how morally charged issues may be taught responsibly in a diverse democracy. And in an afterword that teachers and teacher educators will find particularly useful, Simon provides practical tools and strategies for structuring discussion and designing units to help teachers explore moral issues more deeply with their middle and high school students."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12136011.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""This book investigates how schools can responsibly take an active role in moral education while honoring their academic mission. Using extensive observations in public, Catholic, and Jewish high schools, Katherine Simon analyzes the ways in which teachers avoid or address moral questions raised by students and implicit in course materials. She examines how morally charged issues may be taught responsibly in a diverse democracy. And in an afterword that teachers and teacher educators will find particularly useful, Simon provides practical tools and strategies for structuring discussion and designing units to help teachers explore moral issues more deeply with their middle and high school students."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-282) and index.".
- catalog description "Place of meaning -- What is moral education? -- Three high schools and a researcher -- "We could argue about that all day": missed opportunities for exploring moral questions -- "It makes you think": sustained discussions of moral and existential questions -- From the sublime to the mundane: religion courses in religious schools -- Whose values will get taught? the challenge of pluralism -- Case for systemic reform -- Strategies and tools for incorporating moral and existential questions into the classroom.".
- catalog extent "xv, 288 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0300090323 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Haven : Yale University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "373/.01/140973 21".
- catalog subject "High school teaching United States Case studies.".
- catalog subject "LC311 .S49 2001".
- catalog subject "Moral education (Secondary) United States Case studies.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Place of meaning -- What is moral education? -- Three high schools and a researcher -- "We could argue about that all day": missed opportunities for exploring moral questions -- "It makes you think": sustained discussions of moral and existential questions -- From the sublime to the mundane: religion courses in religious schools -- Whose values will get taught? the challenge of pluralism -- Case for systemic reform -- Strategies and tools for incorporating moral and existential questions into the classroom.".
- catalog title "Moral questions in the classroom : how to get kids to think deeply about real life and their schoolwork / Katherine G. Simon.".
- catalog type "Case studies. fast".
- catalog type "text".