Foreword; Preface; Author Biographies; PART I: FRAMEWORK FOR THE STUDY; PART II: THE DISCOURSES OF CHARACTER EDUCATION; PART III: THE DEEP SOUTH: DIDACTIC, INDIVIDUALISTIC, AUTHORITARIAN APPROACHES TO CHARACTER EDUCATION; PART IV: THE UPPER MIDWEST: COMMUNITY-BASED, REFLECTIVE APPROACHES TO CHARACTER EDUCATION; PART V: CONCLUSION; References; Author Index; Subject Index
Summary
Peter Smagorinsky and Joel Taxel analyze the ways in which the perennial issue of character education has been articulated in the United States, both historically and in the current character education movement that began in earnest in the 1990s. The goal is to uncover the ideological nature of different conceptions of character education
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-380) and indexes
