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Moral Education

Beyond the Teaching of Right and Wrong

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Authors:
  1. Colin Wringe

    1. Keele University, UK

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  • Offers a comprehensive account of moral education in the light of a range of ethical theories
  • Addresses important contemporary issues and controversies (morality and citizenship, family values, sexual morality
  • Balanced, thoughtful, undoctrinaire and written in a clear, jargon-free, accessible style
  • Written by an author who is a highly respected authority on this and related educational topics

Part of the book series: Philosophy and Education (PHED, volume 14)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  3. Moral Theory and Moral Education

    1. Maximising Happiness

      Pages 43-50

    2. Rights and Rationality

      Pages 51-61

    3. Virtues

      Pages 62-73

    4. Communitarianism

      Pages 74-82

    5. Caring

      Pages 83-93

    6. Morality One or Many?

      Pages 94-104

    7. The Outcomes of Moral Education

      Pages 105-115

  4. Moral Education in the Modern World

    1. Sexual Morality

      Pages 119-128

    2. Families and Family Life

      Pages 129-141

    3. Moral Education and Citizenship

      Pages 142-151

    4. And Global Citizenship?

      Pages 152-158

    5. Moral Education in Practice

      Pages 159-175

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 176-185
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About this book

Casual reference to moral education or the manner in which young people should be brought up to behave may provoke a range of responses depending on the context and the personalities and ideological perspectives of those present. In the past, these responses sometimes included a Rousseauesque assertion of the inherent goodness of all human beings, which only needed to be left to emerge uncorrupted and undistorted, with the help of infinite loving-kindness on the part of teachers, all with the patience of saints. More extreme versions of this view may have comprised vehement protest at the very idea of the state, through its educational institutions, concerning itself at all with such matters, which were felt to be properly the province of the family or religious organisations, if not a matter of individual choice for young people themselves when they were grown up. Explicit proposals for moral education were invariably at risk of being perceived as indoctrination or an abuse of children’s rights of freedom and autonomous development. More frequently these days, the response may be a succinct list of the speaker’s own choice moral prescriptions, an assertion that these need to be inculcated in a clear and unequivocal way to all young people of whatever age, inclination or social experience and, often enough, a statement of the sanctions to be applied to those who do not or will not conform.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Keele University, UK

    Colin Wringe

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Moral Education

  • Book Subtitle: Beyond the Teaching of Right and Wrong

  • Authors: Colin Wringe

  • Series Title: Philosophy and Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3709-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3708-5Published: 17 November 2005

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6180-6Published: 23 April 2007

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3709-2Published: 14 February 2006

  • Series ISSN: 0923-9065

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 185

  • Topics: Educational Philosophy, Ethics, Teaching and Teacher Education

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