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PRACTICAL ETHICS
Helping Students Lead Productive, Principled,
and Fulfilling Lives
Section 2
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PRACTICAL ETHICS – SECTION
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Section 1
What is character education?
 Why teach character education?
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Section 2
The history of character education
 Curriculum and character education
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Section 3
Constructs of character education
 The principles of effective character education
 Developing authentic character education
 Conclusion
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HISTORY OF CHARACTER
EDUCATION
Ancient Greece to Nineteenth Century
 The Bible and Literacy in the Colonial Period
 Nineteenth Century
 Twentieth Century
 Twenty-First Century
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HISTORY OF CHARACTER
EDUCATION
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Ancient Greece to Nineteenth Century
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Transmission of knowledge secondary to character
development
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HISTORY OF CHARACTER
EDUCATION
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The Bible and Literacy in the Colonial Period
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The need for literacy focused almost entirely on
exposure of Christian morality and the teaching of
the Bible.
If a child were illiterate, how then could he read the Bible?
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HISTORY OF CHARACTER
EDUCATION
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Nineteenth Century
During the 1800’s, education was promoted for both
secular and moral reasons.
 Teachers were hired and trained with the clear
expectation of advancing the moral mission of the
school and attend to character formation.
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HISTORY OF CHARACTER
EDUCATION
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Twentieth Century
Until the 1900’s - religious tenets
 Pressure to separate organized religion and
education
 Surge of values neutral
declinschooling
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Achievement scores e
 Discipline and behavior problems increase
 Schools accused of teaching secular humanism
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HISTORY OF CHARACTER
EDUCATION
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Twenty-First Century
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The return of character education begins to take hold
in American schools.
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Source: Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can
Teach Respect and Responsibility by Thomas Lickona, 1991
CHARACTER EDUCATION
AND THE CURRICULUM
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Where in the curriculum should character
education belong?
Everywhere
 Not an ‘add-on’
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Should there be allocated instruction time?
Pareto Improvement
 Targeted and Sophisticated Lesson Planning
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