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Social and Moral Education: The
Educated Person as a Member of
Society
Chapter 10
The most important stuff learned in
school is
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1. The core subjects: math, English,
science
2. Attitudes and beliefs about what is
important and what isn’t: what counts
The Hidden Curriculum
• Largely unstated. Includes the knowledge,
values, attitudes, norms, and beliefs
children acquire in school that are not
stated in the formal Overt curriculum
• Messages of value
• Teachers who ignore racial and cultural
background, are “color-blind”…convey a
message
The Null Curriculum
• Ignorance is not simply a neutral void; it
has important effects on the kinds of
options one is able to consider, the
alternatives one can examine,
perspectives from which one can view
Schools teach you how to earn a
living, not how to live.
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2. I disagree
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The Social Characteristics of
Classrooms
• Crowds…so rules and routines
• Praise…acceptance based on
performance
• Power…teachers and principals control
praise allocation, classroom furniture
Social Educational Role
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Structural-Functionalism
Non-kin adult-child relationships
Time-limited school day
Grade-leveling of students
Transient student-teacher relationships
Same-age peer interactions
High child-to-adult ratios
Teach: independence, achievement,
universalism, and specificity
Conflict Theory
• Cultural reproduction…mirroring in
relationships between teachers and
students the economic, social, and
political relationships of the workplace
• Resistance Theory…individuals and
minority groups can transcend the
message of the schools, not be passive
recipients, that limit their lives
• Critical Pedagogy
Moral Education
• Values…are beliefs about what is
important in life and how things should be
• Which values and codes of conduct should
be taught?
• Code of ethics…collection of rules that are
either presumed to be universal principles
or judged to be good because they have
positive outcomes
Approaches to Moral Education
• Virtues Approach…moral good is clear,
absolute, and universal (Bennett)
• Self-discipline, compassion, responsibility,
friendship, work, courage, perseverance,
honesty, loyalty, and faith
• We learn to discipline or “order our souls.”
• Six Pillars of Character (Josephson)
trustworthiness, respect, responsibility,
fairness, caring, and citizenship
Approaches to Moral Development
• Philosophy for Children…philosophical
inquiry to lead student to form concepts
and ask and analyze questions
• Moral Development Approach (Kohlberg),
3 levels, 6 stages and (Carol Gilligan)
• Values Clarification Approach
I have been bullied in school
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2. no
I have been sexually harassed in
school
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Ye
1. Yes
2. no
At U.M.D. I always feel safe and
secure
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2. No
Providing Safe Schools
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School Violence and Student Fear
Zero tolerance and Alternatives
Bullying
Responding to Crises