The Moral Life of Schools

by Jackson, Philip W.; Boostrom, Robert E.; Hansen, David T.

• ISBN13: 9781555425777
• ISBN10: 1555425771
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-09-01
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass Inc Pub

Summary

"Jackson, Boostrom, and Hansen capture the ways in which classroom communities shape the hearts and minds of students and teachers alike in as full-bodied a fashion as Jackson's Life in Classrooms first recorded the pulse and passions of school life. The Moral Life of Schools is powerful reading for anyone concerned with the aims of education, with the inner lives of teachers and children, and with the most important foundations of our society our ways of learning to live together."Linda Darling-Hammond, professor of education, Teachers College, Columbia University

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
Looking for the Moral: An Observer's Guide	1	(44)
Becoming Aware of Moral Complexity Within a School Setting: Four Sets of Observations	45	(82)
Facing Moral Ambiguity and Tension: Four More Sets of Observations	127	(110)
Cultivating Expressive Awareness in Schools and Classrooms	237	(58)
Postscript Where Might One Go from Here?	295	(18)
Notes	313	(2)
Index	315	(6)
The Authors	321	(2)
Acknowledgments	323