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Views treated equally valid in classroom

Position 1: Teaching Traditional Values Schools should provide a firm education in ethical principles that help youth sort, analyze, and evaluate behaviors and values expressed in popular culture. Value-neutral, value-relative and anything-goes approach. Views treated equally valid in classroom.

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Views treated equally valid in classroom

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  1. Position 1:Teaching Traditional ValuesSchools should provide a firm education in ethical principles that help youth sort, analyze, and evaluate behaviors and values expressed in popular culture.

  2. Value-neutral, value-relative and anything-goes approach Views treated equally valid in classroom • Feminist bias/Special Interests seeks special treatment in textbooks • Curriculum And Textbooks • “Without clear and consistent standards of acceptable behavior and belief, our society is doomed to ethical destruction” . (p. 271)

  3. Tradition Values • Restored • Schools were established to transmit those values to the young to preserve the values and society • Values Education/Ethics Education/Moral Education/Character Education

  4. Elementary: • Highlight ideals • Show individuals working together • Signs and symbols reinforce American values • Secondary: • Family Values • Citing acts of outstanding school citizenship • Literature focusing on rewards for moral • WORK FAMILY, RESPONSIBILITY, LOYALTY, DECENCY, AND RESPECT • Other: • Athletics – Prayer/Moral Conduct • Moral Standards for licenses

  5. Definition of Liberation • Emancipation of students and teachers from the blinders of class-dominated ignorance, conformity, and thought control

  6. Students and Teachers • Active participants in opposing oppression and improving democracy

  7. Goals • Liberate the individual and society • Broadly distribute liberating power

  8. Values in Liberation Education • Justice • Equality • Opposition to oppression and authoritarianism • Critical understanding of cultural cross-currents in contemporary society and mechanisms of manipulation that hide ideological purposes • Schooling is used by the dominant culture to secure its power • The powerless can develop power through education

  9. Traditional Values Teach subservience, obedience, and docility

  10. The United States is the chosen country • The United States has justice and equality for all • The United States has the best economic system • Raising questions about American values is anti-American

  11. Resources Http://www.Courierpostonline.Com/article/20110325/NEWS01/103250334/cherry-hill-school-among-national-finalists-character-education-award?Odyssey=tab|topnews|text|frontpagehttp://www.Character.Org/nationalschoolsofcharacterpublicationhttp://charactercounts.Org/http://www.Goodcharacter.Com/pp/fairness.Html

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