The Revival of values education in Asia and the West /

It is clear from cross-national investigations that the concern with values education is universal, but that national approaches to the critical questions confronting value educators are extraordinarily diverse. This volume begins by examining the context of the revival of values education, and asks...

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Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology
Group Author: Cummings, William K; Gopinathan, Saravanan; Tomoda, Yasumasa, 1940
Published: Pergamon Press,
Publisher Address: Oxford, England ; New York :
Publication Dates: 1988.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Edition: First edition.
Series: Comparative and international education series ; v. 7
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780080358536
Summary: It is clear from cross-national investigations that the concern with values education is universal, but that national approaches to the critical questions confronting value educators are extraordinarily diverse. This volume begins by examining the context of the revival of values education, and asks why it is gaining new impact in national and local educational systems. Chapter 2 helps to locate values education in its historical time and place. The case studies presented in Chapters 3-9 provide examples of the major variations in national practice in Asia and the West; and the concluding ch
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (vii, 183 pages).
ISBN: 0080358535
9780080358536
Index Number: LC268
CLC: G40
Contents: Revival of values education /
Values education in the curriculum : some comparative empirical data /
Values education in the Western European tradition /
The good citizen -- a threatened species? /
Politics and moral education in Japan /
Ideologies in Korea's morals and social studies texts : a content analysis /
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