Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility

Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility

Thomas Lickona
$20.00
Publication Date: September 1st, 1992
Publisher:
Bantam
ISBN:
9780553370522
Pages:
496

Description

Calls for renewed moral education in America's schools, offering dozens of programs schools can adopt to teach students respect, responsibility, hard work, and other values that should not be left to parents to teach.

About the Author

Dr. Thomas Lickona is a developmental psychologist and professor of education emeritus at the State University of New York at Cortland, where he directs the Center for the Fourth and Fifth Rs (Respect and Responsibility). A past president of the Association for Moral Education, he serves on the Board of Directors of the Character Education Partnership and speaks around the world to teachers, parents, religious educators, and other groups concerned about the character development of young people.