1st Edition

Can We Teach Children to be Good? (RLE Edu K)

By Roger Straughan Copyright 1988
162 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

The apparently straightforward question 'Can we teach children to be good?' cannot be properly understood without a great deal of careful thinking about the philosophical issues involved. Teachers and parents often assume that what the question means and how it should be answered are self-evidently matters of plain 'commonsense', but the dangers of such assumptions are laid bare by the probing... Read more

1. What are the main problems? 2. What are the main approaches to moral education? 3. What does it mean to be good? 4. What is the form of morality and moral education? 5. What is the content of morality and moral education? 6. So can we teach children to be good?

Biography

ROGER STRAUGHAN

‘The very real quality and usefulness of the book as an introductory text, and its sensible portrayal of logical priorities, is to be admired.’ Cambridge Journal of Education