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Hoerr, Thomas R. – ASCD, 2016
For success in school and in life, students need more than academic proficiency and good test scores. Author Tom Hoerr shows how to foster the "Formative Five" attributes that today's students need: (1) Empathy: learning to see the world through others' perspectives. (2) Self control: cultivating the abilities to focus and delay self…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Student Development, Empathy, Perspective Taking
Kirschenbaum, Howard – 1995
This book presents a comprehensive approach to values education and moral education. It draws on old and new approaches and methods to help young people grow up with clear values, good character, moral integrity, and the knowledge and skills to be good citizens. This comprehensive model utilizes traditional approaches for inculcating and modeling…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Young, Robert B. – 1997
This book is a call to those within higher education to remain clear and consistent about the core values--service, truth, freedom, equality, individuation, justice, and community--that play a critical role in American society. It provides suggestions to help administrators and faculty to incorporate these values into their own practice and…
Descriptors: Altruism, Beliefs, Codes of Ethics, Culture Conflict
Damon, William, Ed. – 2002
The nine essays in this book present perspectives on what is needed in character education from kindergarten to college. Two main themes run through the volume. The first is a consensus among the authors that fundamental moral standards must be passed along to the young and that educators at all levels bear the obligation to transmit these core…
Descriptors: Codes of Ethics, Consciousness Raising, Democratic Values, Educational Principles