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.

Views treated equally valid in classroomFeminist bias/Special

Interests seeks special treatment in textbooks

Value-neutral, value-relative and anything-

goes approach

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

• Emancipation of students and teachers from the blinders of

class-dominated ignorance, conformity, and thought control

Definition of Liberation

• Active participants in opposing oppression and improving democracy

Students and Teachers

• Liberate the individual and society

• Broadly distribute liberating power

Goals

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

Teach subservience, obedience, and docility

Traditional Values

• 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

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http://www.Character.Org/nationalschoolsofcharacterpublication

http://charactercounts.Org/

http://www.Goodcharacter.Com/pp/fairness.Html

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