A Call for Character Education and Prayer in the Schools
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A Call for Character Education and Prayer in the Schools

  1. 344 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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A Call for Character Education and Prayer in the Schools

About this book

This book offers an examination of the related topics of school prayer and character education in the United States, advocating for their return to public schools. According to William Jeynes, the lack of both school prayer and consistent moral instruction in our schools has had devastating consequences both for our education system and for the nation as a whole. In A Call for Character Education and Prayer in the Schools, Jeynes makes a compelling case for restoring moral instruction and nonspecific religious moments to the classroom as a way of restoring a much needed moral grounding in American society in general. A Call for Character Education and Prayer in the Schools traces the history of character education in the public schools, including coverage of leading advocates of their inclusion from Thomas Jefferson to DeWitt Clinton to Horace Mann. Jeynes then offers a broad survey of the country since the Supreme Court decisions of 1962 and 1963, asserting that most of America's greatest problems are moral in nature, and could be addressed by making moral instruction and a focus on the spiritual a part of our young citizens' school lives.

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Information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9780313351037
eBook ISBN
9780313351044
Edition
1
Topic
Bildung
Subtopic
Bildung Allgemein

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Foreword
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. 1 Do Americans Need Moral Education and Religious Freedom Returned to the Public Schools?
  6. 2 The Schools of Educational Philosophy
  7. 3 Prayer in the School and Moral Education in America Prior to the Revolutionary War
  8. 4 Character Education during the Postā€“Revolutionary War Period
  9. 5 Prayer and Moral Education in the Eyes of the Founders of the Modern Day Public School
  10. 6 The Practice of Character Education from the Mid-1800s until 1962
  11. 7 The New Philosophy of Education Beginning in 1962 and 1963
  12. 8 America Has Lost Its Way
  13. 9 A Nation without Absolute Values
  14. 10 Most of America's Problems Are Not Economic and Academic in Nature
  15. 11 What We Can Do to Restore Character Education and Resurrect Religious Freedom in America
  16. Index