Product Description: New Perspectives on Young Children's Moral Education explores how to approach young children's moral education in a world of uncertainty and change.What is moral education? How do young children learn to act and interact appropriately? How do we enable children to recognise that how they act and interact matters? How can character, virtues and value help young children internalise qualities associated with living 'a good life'?Challenging many current assumptions about ethics and education, Tony Eaude suggests that a moral dimension runs through every aspect of life and that ethics involves learning to act and interact appropriately, based on an 'ethic of care' and enduring qualities and attributes, to equip children to resist strong external pressures...read more

This book is designed to serve as a personal development resource for all who work in schools and have responsibility for the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils. It provides materials for staff development activities and resources for use in classrooms. The first section covers the background, relating to the Every Child Matters agenda; the second section offers practical strategies for implementing the key components of spiritual and moral development as outlined in the first section.

Product Description: Help children learn coping skills through literature! This book answers the often repeated question: Is there a children's book I can read in my classroom to give children insight into significant life events? Literature ideas and activities help students cope with real-life situations, such as bullying, that interfere with school...read more

Presents activites for fourth and fifth grade students organized by ten character traits including compassion, integrity, respect, and fairness.

Product Description: This collection provides teachers and librarians with Readers Theatre scripts to promote and reinforce character education. Each original script presents a wide variety of dilemmas and situations, often drawn from true events, and includes suggestions for presentation and props...read more

Provides a sensible, nondenominational handbook to help parents raise spiritually aware, morally responsible children, with or without formal religious instruction, offer practical advice, projects, and resources to assist in teaching essential virtues and deal with complicated religious issues and concepts. Original. 20,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Presents activities for teachers and parents to help teach children how to develop social values.

Three child-rearing experts offer useful advice for nurturing the conscience in children and adolescents. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This book has three components: 1) An eight-step process that enables the faculty and students to better know, understand and live concepts and principles that enliven the seven themes of Catholic social teaching. Integral to the process is the bishop's 1998 statement, Sharing Catholic Social Teaching: Challenges and Directions...read more