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Schools play a vital role in instilling ethical principles and values in the youth from elementary through secondary levels. Teaching traditional values, such as work ethic, responsibility, loyalty, and decency, contributes to a strong moral foundation. This approach involves highlighting ideals, reinforcing American values through symbols, and promoting family values and acts of outstanding citizenship. Liberation education aims to free students and teachers from oppressive ideologies, fostering values of justice, equality, and critical thinking. Embracing traditional values while promoting liberation education can lead to a balanced and empowered society.
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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.
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)
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
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
Definition of Liberation • Emancipation of students and teachers from the blinders of class-dominated ignorance, conformity, and thought control
Students and Teachers • Active participants in opposing oppression and improving democracy
Goals • Liberate the individual and society • Broadly distribute liberating power
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
Traditional Values Teach subservience, obedience, and docility
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
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