Character Education

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Character Education

• By Loren Hord

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What is Character Education

• Character Education is a way of teaching
  students morals in order for them to learn right
  from wrong and to prepare them for the real
  world.

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Early Character Education

• Character Education was taught directly with
  discipline, teacher example and daily curriculum.
• Used the Bible as a source book for moral and
  religious instruction.

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Why Character Education Declined

• Darwinism and evolution.
• Positivism Facts vs. Values.
• New view of morality.
• Social Pluralism.

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The New Character Education

• The Character Ed revival began in the early
  1990s.
• Started with the creation of The Character
  Education Partnership in 1993.

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Why Character Education now?

• Decline of family unit.
• 10 troubling trends in youth character.
• A want for a recovery of shared and objectively
  important ethical values.

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Objectives of Character Education

• Know moral dimension of any situation.
• Understanding of moral values and their
  requirements.
• Develop good perspective taking, moral reasoning
  and thoughtful decision making.
• Build strong moral self knowledge.

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What is the future of Character Education?

• Support of school from families, leaders and
  media.
• Good moral leadership.
• Teacher training.

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Sources

• www.ascd.org
• Charactereducation.com
• www.character.org
• Teacher.scholastic.com
• Hutcheon, Pat Duffy. Building Character and
  Culture. Westport, Connecticut. Praeger
  Publishers. 1999.