LEADER 04019nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910819836303321 005 20230725041448.0 010 $a979-84-00-62287-8 010 $a0-313-35103-1 024 7 $a10.5040/9798400622878 035 $a(CKB)2480000000001233 035 $a(MH)012127658-9 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000370777 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12109996 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000370777 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10376531 035 $a(PQKB)10162443 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2051548 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11057180 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL784812 035 $a(OCoLC)690106444 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2051548 035 $a(OCoLC)1395568482 035 $a(UkLoBP)BP9798400622878BC 035 $a(EXLCZ)992480000000001233 100 $a20230825e20192023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA call for character education and prayer in the schools /$fWilliam H. Jeynes ; foreword by William J. Murray 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aSanta Barbara :$cLibraries Unlimited,$d2019. 210 2$aLondon :$cBloomsbury Publishing (UK),$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 332 p. ) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-313-35104-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $aDo Americans need moral education and religious freedom returned to the public schools? -- The schools of educational philosophy -- Prayer in the school and moral education in America prior to the Revolutionary War -- Character education during the post-Revolutionary War period -- Prayer and moral education in the eyes of the founders of the modern day public school -- The practice of character education from the mid-1800s until 1962 -- The new philosophy of education beginning in 1962 and 1963 -- America has lost its way -- A nation without absolute values -- Most of America's problems are not economic and academic in nature -- What we can do to restore character education and resurrect religious freedom in America. 330 $aThis book offers an examination of the related topics of school prayer and character education in the United States, advocating for their return to public schools. According to William Jeynes, the lack of both school prayer and consistent moral instruction in our schools has had devastating consequences both for our education system and for the nation as a whole. In A Call for Character Education and Prayer in the Schools, Jeynes makes a compelling case for restoring moral instruction and nonspecific religious moments to the classroom as a way of restoring a much needed moral grounding in American society in general. A Call for Character Education and Prayer in the Schools traces the history of character education in the public schools, including coverage of leading advocates of their inclusion from Thomas Jefferson to DeWitt Clinton to Horace Mann. Jeynes then offers a broad survey of the country since the Supreme Court decisions of 1962 and 1963, asserting that most of America's greatest problems are moral in nature, and could be addressed by making moral instruction and a focus on the spiritual a part of our young citizens' school lives. 606 $aEducation 606 $aMoral & social purpose of education$2bicssc 615 0$aEducation. 615 7$aMoral & social purpose of education 676 $a370.11/4 700 $aJeynes$b William H.$0910506 801 0$bUkLoBP 801 1$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819836303321 996 $aA call for character education and prayer in the schools$93992296 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress