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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792169203321

Autore

Haydon Graham

Titolo

Values in education / / Graham Haydon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum International Publishing, , 2006

©2006

ISBN

0-8264-2396-5

1-4411-6208-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Collana

Continuum Studies in Research in Education

Altri autori (Persone)

HaydonGraham

Disciplina

370.941

Soggetti

Moral education - Great Britain

Values - Study and teaching - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I The wider context; 1. Introduction: Teachers and Values; 2. Education and Aims; Part II Values; 3. Values and Moral Values; 4. Conflict and Plurality in Values; 5. Three Important Values: Compromise, Tolerance and Respect; Part III Morality; 6. What's Wrong with Morality?; 7. What's Right about Morality?; 8. Making Sense of Morality - and Spirituality Too?; Part IV Citizenship: some value controversies; 9. Fighting for a Cause: Violence, Persuasion and Education; 10. Secular Society, Citizenship and Faith Schools

Part V Values education11. Values Education: Teachers as Transmitters of Values?; 12. Values Education: Teachers as Educators; Part VI Values in the teaching profession; 13. Valuing Teachers; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

?What are the fundamental aims and values underlying education?    ?What values should education try to promote in a world of value pluralism?   ?What is morality, and should schools teach it?   ?In a secular society, how should schools treat the links between morality and religion?   ?How should values enter into professional education and educational leadership?      This book, an updated