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.
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Written from an insightful radical perspective.[Teaching Values] brings a necessary voice to these discussions, a voice that blends theoretical knowledge with practical experience. -- bell hooks, author of Teaching to Transgress
Written from an insightful radical perspective.[Teaching Values] takes on issues that are usually addressed soley by conservatives; it's time other voices entered these debates. The book brings a necessary voice to these discussions; a voice that blends theoretical knowledge with practical experience. -- bell hooks, author of Teaching to Transgress
Teaching Values calmly extricates multiculturalism from the hands of Ravitch, Schlesinger, et al. and astutely places it in the traditions of Western thought that it is supposed to be destroying, and on the high ethical ground where it belongs. Deftly avoiding both polemics and postmodern nihilism, Scapp defies current caricatures of 'the left.' Allowing his years of experience as an educator and his keen intelligence to guide the way, he helps us to think carefully, wisely, humanely, and freshly about a range of controversial issues. -- Susan Bordo, Otis A. Singletary Professor of Humanities, University of Kentucky
Written from an insightful radical perspective.[Teaching Values] takes on issues that are usually addressed soley by conservatives; it's time other voices entered these debates. The book brings a necessary voice to these discussions; a voice that blends theoretical knowledge with practical experience. -- bell hooks, author of Teaching to Transgress
Teaching Values calmly extricates multiculturalism from the hands of Ravitch, Schlesinger, et al. and astutely places it in the traditions of Western thought that it is supposed to be destroying, and on the high ethical ground where it belongs. Deftly avoiding both polemics and postmodern nihilism, Scapp defies current caricatures of 'the left.' Allowing his years of experience as an educator and his keen intelligence to guide the way, he helps us to think carefully, wisely, humanely, and freshly about a range of controversial issues. -- Susan Bordo, Otis A. Singletary Professor of Humanities, University of Kentucky
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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.
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"For the past twenty years or so, many Americans have worried out loud and complained about the loss of truth, with a capital ""T,"" in our culture." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mount Saint Vincent, Ruth Sherman, Uncle Mordecai, United States, Black English, New York City, Teacher Center, Carolivia Herron, Sister Mary Seton, Townsend Harris, Sisters of Charity, African Americans, Kingsley Braggs, Queens College, Cornel West, Hudson River, Barbara Tubertini, Lani Guinier, Paulo Freire, United Federation of Teachers, William Bennett, Bill Bryson, Central Park, Columbia University, Donaldo Macedo New!
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"For the past twenty years or so, many Americans have worried out loud and complained about the loss of truth, with a capital ""T,"" in our culture." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mount Saint Vincent, Ruth Sherman, Uncle Mordecai, United States, Black English, New York City, Teacher Center, Carolivia Herron, Sister Mary Seton, Townsend Harris, Sisters of Charity, African Americans, Kingsley Braggs, Queens College, Cornel West, Hudson River, Barbara Tubertini, Lani Guinier, Paulo Freire, United Federation of Teachers, William Bennett, Bill Bryson, Central Park, Columbia University, Donaldo Macedo New!
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- Managing to Be Different: Educational Leadership as Critical Practice by Ron Scapp in Back Matter, and Index
- Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope by bell hooks on page 7, and page 105
- THE ETHICS OF HOMELESSNESS.Philosophical Perspectives.(Value Inquiry Book Series 86) by G.John M. Abbarno in Back Matter
- Education as Enforcement: The Militarization and Corporatization of Schools by Kenneth J. Saltman on page 213
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