Moral education in America's schools
Subtitle: the continuing challenge
By: by Thomas C. Hunt and Monalisa Mullins.
Contributors: Mullins, Monalisa.
Publisher: Information Age Pub.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Greenwich, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
Subjects: Moral education -- United States -- History; Character -- Study and teaching -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Colonial beginnings; title: The Revolutionary era; title: The education of poor children : New York City and the Lancaster Method; title: Horace Mann's common school; title: The antebellum state normal school; title: Ante- and postbellum schooling in the South : Virginia, a case study; title: The nineteenth century parochial school; title: The Bible as a textbook of moral education; title: McGuffey readers; title: The "Americanizing" secular school; title: A special case : the freedmen; title: The early twentieth century : the "citizenship" focus; title: The impact of John Dewey on moral education; title: The Educational Policies commision; title: Kohlberg's stages of moral development; title: Values clarification; title: The character education movement.