Ethics for the Young Mind

A Guide for Teachers and Parents of Children Becoming Adolescents

Jerome S. Allender, Donna Sclarow Allender

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9781612056838
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317260301
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

<i>Ethics for the Young Mind</i> is both a curriculum and a story. This book is designed to assist teachers and parents in their endeavors to educate young people about behaving ethically. Messy ethics, practical applications, and teaching ethics are the main topics. The book begins with a focus on right versus wrong and moves on to an exploration of combining rules with compassion. The authors explore what happens when right confronts a conflicting right, and the hard work of a meaningful ethical classroom discussion. The practical applications provided in the book demonstrate how to stop bullying before the social fabric of a community breaks down. Offering vivid classroom and real-life examples, the book works through the challenges and rewards of creating ethical classrooms and other communities—even at home. The authors address global concerns and the overall need for adolescents to develop a work ethic to have success in creating an ethical community.

INDEX

absolutes, 37–38, 40, 41, 67, 107

academic quality, 75

adolescents: identity development by, 83–84; responsibilities of, 27–28; rights of, 26–28; stereotypes of, 83–84; teaching of younger children by, 117–127

adult guidance, 8, 21, 83

agency, 12, 27–28, 45, 55

agreements, 7, 13–15, 22, 27, 73–74

Aikido in Action (Dobson), 47, 63–64, 65

Alexander, Lloyd, 82–83, 118–119

“Aligning Professional and Personal Identities” (Kim and Greene), 108

Allender, Donna Sclarow, 15, 27, 37, 50, 74, 105, 111

Allender, Jerome, 12, 15, 27, 34, 37, 50, 57, 74, 105, 109, 111

ambiguities, 10, 15, 89, 106–107, 108, 112

American Gothic (Wood), 81

ancient laws, 14, 25–26

Ancient Mesopotamia for Kids, 14

The Anti-bullying Handbook (Sullivan), 54

arbitrary rules, 11

archetypes, 84–85

arguments, 5, 68

art, 58

artistic expression, 66–67

assumptions, 17, 39, 89, 91, 97

authority, 12, 19, 25, 39, 53, 60, 130

Bazelon, Emily, 115

behavior: ethical, 7–8; misbehavior, 22, 110; regulation of social, 13

Berkowitz, Marvin, 38, 40

Berry, Amanda, 105, 106

Blum, L., 38, 39, 41, 71

Bohlin, Karen, 64, 66, 65, 67, 83

The Book of Three (Alexander), 118–119, 124

Building Character in Schools (Ryan and Bohlin), 65, 67, 83

The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander (Coloroso...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Section 1 Messy Ethics
• Section 2 Practical Applications
• Section 3 Teaching
• References
• Index
• About the Authors