1st Edition

Teaching Values Critical Perspectives on Education, Politics, and Culture

By Ron Scapp Copyright 2003
    208 Pages
    by Routledge

    208 Pages
    by Routledge

    In Teaching Values, Ron Scapp wrests the discussion of values and values-based education away from traditionalists who have long dominated educational debates. While challenging the Right's domination of the discussion of values education, Scapp examines some issues not typically raised by educators and critics on the Left, including the positive role of citizenship and national identity in U.S. education and culture.

    Introduction 1. When the Truth is Gone: Teaching in an Age of Uncertainty 2. Happy to be Happy 3. From Substandard to Nonstandard English: Getting Beyond the Morality of Speaking Right 4. Go tell it on the Mount 5. But is he Straight: Identity, Teaching and the Simple Acts of Privilege 6. Why Multiculturalism (Still)? Epilogue Teaching in an Extra- Moral Sense

    Biography

    Ron Scapp is Associate Professor of Education and Philosophy at the College of Mount St. Vincent, where he is also the Director of the Master's Program in Urban and Multicultural Affairs.