Habits of Mind: Struggling Over Values in America's Classrooms

ISBN-13: 9780787900618 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 252 str.

Melinda Fine

Opis

Explores the politics and practice of programs that foster moral thinking and civic responsibility?highlighting the acclaimed and controversial Facing History and Ourselves (FHAO) curriculum, which uses study of the Holocaust to help students reflect on issues of racism, violence, intolerance, and prejudice.

Spis treści

Introduction: Fostering Democratic Habits of Mind.

CLASSROOM PORTRAITS.

``What Makes You You?′′

``We Don′t Believe Everything that We Hear′′.

``Confronting What Is Hard to Think About′′.

PUBLIC DEBATES.

Visions in Conflict.

The Fight Against Critical Moral Education.

Conclusion: Educating for Democracy.

O autorze

MELINDA FINE is an educational research and program development consultant. Her clients include youth development organizations, curriculum development groups, school reform initiatives, and public television companies. From 1991 to 1993 she served as assistant director of research for Children′s Television Workshop′s Ghostwriter series. She has worked with the Facing History and Ourselves organization since 1989 as an indepAndent consultant and a member of the organization′s national teacher training team.

Blurb

"In Habits of Mind, Melinda Fine cuts through the opaque rhetoric of public discourse about education to reveal the complex, difficult, ambiguous tensions that are central to developing a truly multicultural society and to the teaching of ′difference′ in schools. A strong and penetrating piece of work, useful for practitioners, scholars, and policy makers." Sara Lawrence–Lightfoot, professor, Harvard University"The forces and counterforces that impact moral education can undermine the best–intAnded plans. This book must be read by all educators who are struggling with these issues." Joseph A. Fernandez, former schools chancellor, New York City Public Schools; president and CEO, School Improvement Services, Inc.; president, The Council of the Great City Schools.Explores the politics and practice of programs that foster moral thinking and civic responsibility highlighting the acclaimed and controversial Facing History and Ourselves (FHAO) curriculum, which uses study of the Holocaust to help students reflect on contemporary issues of racism, violence, intolerance, and prejudice.