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Table of contents :
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
CHAPTER 1. The Place of Meaning
CHAPTER 2. What Is Moral Education?
CHAPTER 3. Three High Schools and a Researcher
CHAPTER 4. "We Could Argue About That All Day"
CHAPTER 5. "It Makes You Think"
CHAPTER 6. From the Sublime to the Mundane
CHAPTER 7. Whose Values Will Get Taught?
CHAPTER 8. The Case for Systemic Reform
AFTERWORD. Strategies and Tools for Incorporating Moral and Existential Questions into the Classroom
Appendix: Methods
Notes
References
Index

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Moral Questions in the Classroom

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Moral Questions in the Classroom How to Get Kids to Think Deeply About Real Life and Their Schoolwork Katherine G. Simon Foreword by Theodore R. Sizer and Nancy Faust Sizer

Yale University Press New Haven and London

Copyright © 2001 by Kathenne G. Simon. Ail rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publishers.

Designed by Thomas Whitridge and set in Century and News Gothic types by ink, Inc., New York. Printed in the United States of America.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Simon, Katherine G,, 1962Moral questions in the classroom: how to get Kids to think deeply about real life and their schoolwork/ Katherine G. Simon.

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Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-300-09032-3 (cloth: alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-300-10168-3 1. Moral education (Secondary)—United States—Case Studies. 2. High school teaching—United StatesCase studies. I. Title LC311 .S492001

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