Download or read book The Role of School Culture in the Implementation of a Character Education Program written by Kristin A. Denbow and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to determine the role of school culture in the implementation of a character education program. Quantitative data were collected from 204 certified school personnel from ten elementary schools currently implementing the CharacterPlus character education program in the St. Louis metropolitan area. Follow-up, semi-structured interviews with five percent of the sample population provided qualitative data. Pearson product-moment correlations were run between the six factors of school culture (collaborative leadership, teacher collaboration, professional development, unity of purpose, collegial support, and learning partnership), as measured by the School Culture Survey, and the ten factors of character education implementation (community participation, character education policy, defined traits, integrated curriculum, experiential learning, evaluation, adult role models, staff development, student leadership, and sustaining the program). Significant correlations were noted between all factors. The strongest school culture correlations were found in the factors of Learning Partnership, Unity of Purpose, and Collegial Support. Backward elimination multiple regression were run on all ten character education implementation factors in order to determine whether predictive linear relationships existed between the factors of school culture and character education implementation. Strong predictive linear relationships were discovered between the school culture factors of Learning Partnership, Unity of Purpose, and Collaborative Leadership and the factors of character education implementation. Weak linear relationships were discovered with the school culture factors of Teacher Collaboration and Professional Development. This study supported the notion that building a strong partnership with the stakeholders of a school and having a defined and focused vision and mission can help the implementation of a character education program.
Download or read book Teacher Perceptions of which School Culture Factors are Most Important to Effective Implementation of a Character Education Program written by Yancy Poorman and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to identify perceptions of teachers regarding the factors of school culture that relate to the implementation of character education in rural schools. The relationship school culture has with the implementation process of character education has yet to be fully examined. In this study, the researcher administered the Degree of Implementation Scale survey (CSD, 1999) and the School Culture Survey (Gruenert & Valentine, 1998). The six factors of school culture (collaborative leadership, teacher collaboration, professional development, collegial support, unity of purpose and learning partnership) were analyzed for predictive relationships with the ten essentials of character education implementation (character education policy, defined traits, integrated curriculum, experiential learning, evaluation, adult role models, staff development, student involvement, and sustaining the program). Several significant predictive relationships were identified.
Download or read book PRIMED for Character Education written by Marvin W Berkowitz and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2023 Outstanding Book Award from AERA's Moral Development and Education SIG! In PRIMED for Character Education, renowned character educator Marvin W Berkowitz boils down decades of research on evidence-based practices and thought-provoking field experience into a clear set of principles that leaders, administrators, and teacher-leaders can implement to help students thrive. The author’s original six-component framework offers a comprehensive guide to shaping purposeful learning environments, healthy relationships, core values and virtues, role models, empowerment, and long-term development in any PreK-12 school or district. This engaging and heartfelt book features tips for practice, anecdotes from award-winning schools, and straightforward tenets from moral education, social-emotional learning, and positive psychology.
Download or read book Character Education written by Edward F. DeRoche and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary schools require far more than just "the three R's". Beyond the books and tests, educational facilities are expected to produce members of society with integrity, as well. Character education is an abstract idea that many educators, both teachers and administrators, have a difficult time implementing, and too often it gets left out of the curriculum. How do school personnel, then, instill values of good character in students, and as an administrator, how do you spread these values to the entire school? DeRoche and Williams provide school leaders with an effective road map, touring schools that have achieved success. The authors divide the reader's journey through reform efforts into several "tour stops," beginning with a review of the character education framework, passing through subjects such as school climate, core values, training personnel, forming relationships, and concluding with guidelines for evaluation. Each "stop" contains a list of helpful articles or books, as well as valuable Internet resources. The conclusion of the journey is ultimately the responsibility of school leaders, but this book will give you a head start.
Download or read book Smart Good High Schools written by Thomas Lickona and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, and in cultures all over the world, education rightly conceived has had two great goals: to help students become smart and to help them become good. They need character for both. Smart & Good High Schools, a 227-page "report to the nation" by Thomas Lickona and Matthew Davidson based on two years of research on American high schools, describes nearly 100 promising practices for developing adolescent character. These practices are organized around a vision aimed at encouraging a paradigm shift in character education: from focusing only on moral character to focusing on both performance character (needed for best work) and moral character (needed for ethical behavior). The report's research included visits to 24 diverse high schools, a comprehensive research review, and the input of a National Experts Panel and a National Student Leaders Panel. --Publisher description.
Download or read book Mobilizing for Evidence Based Character Education written by Linda McKay and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many educators believe that implementing character education (CE) in their schools helps students develop ethically, socially and academically. CE embraces all aspects of how schools, related social institutions and parents can support the positive character development of children and adults. This evaluation guide is a resource primarily for project directors who are federal grantees embarking on an evaluation of a CE intervention, although it contains useful info. that can benefit other education administrators who also are providing these interventions. The guide offers strategies for working with external evaluators and key stakeholders in planning and implementing a scientifically sound evaluation. Illustrations.
Download or read book Journal of Character Education written by Jacques S. Benninga and published by IAP. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Journal of Character Education is the only professional journal in education devoted to character education. It is designed to cover the field—from the latest research to applied best practices. We include original research reports, editorials and conceptual articles by the best minds in our field, reviews of latest books, ideas and examples of the integration with character education of socio?emotional learning and other relevant strategies, and manuscripts by educators that describe best practices in teaching and learning related to character education. The Journal of Character Education has for over a decade been the sole scholarly journal focused on research, theory, measurement, and practice of character education. This issue includes four empirical articles, a practitioner’s voice, and a book review. Topics covered in this issue include different approaches to character education in the classroom (e.g., using literature, narrative writing), how teachers promote character education, and how coaches may promote character development.
Download or read book Factors Associated with Successful Implementation of Character Education in Small Schools written by Michael J. Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Character Education in America s Blue Ribbon Schools written by Madonna M. Murphy and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Character Education in America's Blue Ribbon Schools is based upon descriptive, documentary, and qualitative research conducted on the award winning school applications in the United Stated Department of Education's Elementary School Recognition Program, i.e. the Blue Ribbon Schools. The purpose of the program is to focus national attention on schools that are doing an exceptional job with all of their students. Areas studied are developing a solid foundation of basic skills and knowledge of subject matter and fostering the development of character, values, and ethical judgement. The first edition of this book reported on the first decade of this program, from 1985 to 1994. The second edition adds the schools that have won the award from 1996-2001. Included are the Blue Ribbon schools that applied for Special Honors in Character Education and five that actually won that recognition in 1998-1999. This edition finds character education much stronger in American schools in recent years and is full of many promising practices. It is a practical book that will guide school administrators, teachers, parents, board members, and concerned citizens interested in starting or strengthening the character education focus of their school.
Download or read book The Discourse of Character Education written by Peter Smagorinsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-05-06 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book 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. The authors show how the current discourses are a continuation of discourse streams through which character education and the national purpose have been debated for hundreds of years, most recently in what are known as the Culture Wars--the intense, often passionate debates about morality, culture, and values carried out by politicians, religious groups, social policy foundations, and a wide range of political commentators and citizens, in which the various stakeholders have sought influence over a wide range of social and economic issues, including education. The centerpiece is a discourse analysis of proposals funded by the United States Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI). Discourse profiles from sets of states that exhibit two distinct conceptions of character are examined and the documents from particular states are placed in dialogue with the OERI Request for Proposals. One profile reflects the dominant perspective promoted in the U.S., based on an authoritarian view in which young people are indoctrinated into the value system of presumably virtuous adults through didactic instruction. The other reflects the well-established yet currently marginal discourse emphasizing attention to the whole environment in which character is developed and enacted and in which reflection on morality, rather than didactic instruction in morality, is the primary instructional approach. By focusing on these two distinct regions and their conceptions of character, the authors situate the character education movement at the turn of the twenty-first century in the context of historical notions about the nature of character and regional conceptions regarding the nature of societal organization. This enlightening volume is relevant to scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and students across the field of education, particularly those involved in character education, moral development, discourse analysis, history and cultural foundations of education, and related fields, and to the wider public interested in character education.
Download or read book Educating for Character written by Thomas Lickona and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-09-02 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 parents to teach.
Download or read book Developing a Character Education Program written by Henry A. Huffman and published by Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development. This book was released on 1994 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mobilizing for Evidence based Character Education written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Character Development in Schools and Beyond written by Kevin Ryan and published by CRVP. This book was released on 1992 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Educating Hearts and Minds written by Edward F. DeRoche and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: """"A great resource for teaching that character matters in furthering the ideals on which this country has been built!" "Carol Russo, Principal, William Lloyd Garrison School Bronx, NY """"The 'soil' of our schools has lost a nurturing ingredient that is essential to give life to the ideas and the efforts of educators. That missing nurturing ingredient is the school's moral mission . . . DeRoche and Williams have written a sound and practical book not only for educators but for anyone interested in learning exactly how schools can navigate these often shoal-filled waters." "Kevin Ryan From the Foreword, "Educating Hearts and Minds, 2nd Edition"" "This second edition merges new ideas in character education research with best practices in schools and districts. The authors provide the most up-to-date and comprehensive framework for K-12 administrators, educators, and concerned citizens. It offers easy access to practical and proven methods supported by in-depth rationale. Highlighted are keys for success in building an effective character education program: Six sets of standards for character education Six tips for leaders Five tips to ensure reaching consensus Five classroom expectations Strategies for school culture and classroom climate Steps for developing a values curriculum Co-curricular activitiesTeaching principles Staff development and personnel training AssessmentThe authors propose standards, promising practices, and assessment instruments that can be personalized to fit the needs and interests of any school, student population, school district, orcommunity. A must-have resource for the concerned and committed educator and parent.
Download or read book The Case for Character Education written by B. David Brooks and published by Quick Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about how society continues to reel from generations of children seemingly raised without proper instruction in values, ethics and morals. Since schools will be asked to serve that function, this book tells why school involvement is a must.
Download or read book In the Name of Morality written by Tianlong Yu and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is presumably a trend toward depoliticization of character education as character educators claim to teach universal values and engage in community-based decision making. However, as Tianlong Yu argues in this book, under the umbrella of universality, character educators define virtues based on neo-conservative ideologies. In the name of community, they trivialize issues of gender, race, class, and culture and promote the interests of dominant social groups. In the Name of Morality: Character Education and Political Control traces the historical origins of character education and stimulates readers to look critically into the social interests, power relations, and political agendas that have shaped the character education movement in the United States. This challenging, yet engaging, book reaffirms the crucial relationship between moral education and politics. It is a must-read for anyone who is concerned about students' character building and moral education in schools.
