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

by Thomas Lickona

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553370529
• ISBN13: 9780553370522
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

A Must Read for Teachers

I hold this book up as a must read at every one of my workshops. It is filled with dozens of useful, practical, and doable ideas. It shows teachers how to promote and teach the values necessary for our children's moral development. His twelve point program offers practical strategies designed to help parents, teachers and communities work together to form a decent and humane society. Educating for Character received a 1992 Christopher Award "for affirming the highest values of the human spirit."

Case for Character Education

As a teacher Likona's Educating for Character gives down to earth, applicable strategies to use in any classroom. He soundly supports a case for all of us to use character education in our classrooms, and also parents and the community to be involved. Likona uses background information and statistics, as well as evidence of teachers and others who have successfully implemented character education in their classrooms. In this day and age of increased violence in our youth this is a must have book for all educators.

Classic of immense influence

Indispensable! Superb analysis of the issues involved in schools helping to raise moral young people. Lickona's lists of classroom and schoolwide strategies are without peer. Chock full (and I do mean chock full) of heartening, motivating examples of schools doing everything from simple service to elaborate projects involving the whole community. Written with a warm, sensible quality. This book is a classic of immense influence, read by educators and parents worldwide. It deserves to be.

Good, But Needs A Booster

This book is very utilitarian, but it DOES need a little booster shot. To really understand what the author is telling you, read Norman Thomas Remick's "WEST POINT" as a companion book that gives "EDUCATING FOR CHARACTER" a solid philosophical foundation based on the sound principles practiced at the world's premier school for teaching character and leadership, West Point. This fine piece of work by the author becomes 5 star reading, learning, and enjoyment.

This is an excellent expression of what I often teach.

Mr. Lickona has done an outstanding job at expressing himself and his beliefs at a time when the this country is morally corrupt. Thanks for a job well done.