San Antonio College Library

"In Right vs. Wrong - Raising a Child with a Conscience, three child-rearing experts offer useful advice for nurturing the conscience in children and adolescents. Written for parents, guardians, and all who work with young people, this book charts the growth of the sense of right and wrong in children from early youth through the teenage years. The authors describe the important events in moral development and identify five transformations during...

"When authors Shumaker and Heckel wrote their earlier book on 'Children Who Murder, ' it became clear to them that society--specifically a significant portion of its young members--is in crisis. The challenge is this: there are extensive differences now in the family, the school environment, the community, and even religious institutions, compared to previous generations. For example, families of today rarely have a coherent extended family. Dual...

"Voices: The Educational Formation of Conscience aims to revise our thinking about moral education and thus to revise our grasp of how we ought to go about it. Moral education is the formation of conscience, and conscience the exercise of reflexive judgment. This book focuses on how conscience is formed rather than on the foundations of norms or their logical status."--Jacket.

Although adolescents roll their eyes at adult platitudes, they love to grapple with sticky moral issues, and they value teachers who nurture their growth as moral decision-makers. Instead of offering sermons, precepts, and prescriptions, educators can most effectively instill moral intelligence through example, critical thinking and role-playing exercises, and real-world applications outside the classroom.

James Davison Hunter (Professor of Sociology), R. Edward Freeman (Co-Director, Olsson Center for Applied Ethics) and Margaret Mohrmann, M.D. (Professor of Pediatrics and Medical Education) debate the issues around moral education and who is responsible for teaching children right from wrong (i.e. building character and instilling moral convictions). Discusses cheating on exams and teaching about moral dilemmas without consensus such as the death penalty,...

"This book is intended for general readers interested in theoretical and practical problems revolving around multiculturalism and education. Most, if not all, philosophical debates come down to the fundamental conflict between conceptions of goods and rights. Current debates about multiculturalism and pluralism, especially in the area of education, often pit the goods of communities against right-claims of other groups or individuals, which leads...

"This book explores what we might teach if we were to take happiness seriously as an aim of education. It asks, first, what it means to be happy and, second, how we can help children to understand what happiness is. It notes that, to be truly happy, we have to develop a capacity for unhappiness and a willingness to alleviate the suffering of others. Criticizing the current almost exclusive emphasis on economic well-being and pleasure, it discusses...