Virtues/Values
  
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This heading is related to almost every aspect of education and curriculum. The materials listed below focus on an examination of particular virtues or values in the context of education. In terms of the big picture, the more general question is the following: Is education itself an intrinsic virtue/value or is it an instrumental virtue/value or both?

Here is a list of the virtues/values from our "graffiti" exercise:
(Please make any other suggestions you wish here.)

  • competence/excellence
  • community enhancement
  • higher awareness
  • discovery/exploration
  • cross-curriculum
  • global, national, local
  • technological literacy
  • life-long learning
  • service
  • creativity
  • study well
  • think well
  • write well
  • read well
  • team skill
  • diversity
  • respect
  • openness
  • problem-
    solving
  • social skill
  • empower-
    ing
  • reflection


Educating the Reflective Practitioner by Donald Schoen

Dewey's Concept of "Virtue" and Its Educational Implications by Susan Rice

Dewy on Virtue by Timothy H. Smith (response)

Liberal Arts Education in the Twenty-First Century by W.R. Connor

Multiculturalism in Collegiate Management Education by Edward Henninger

Spiritual Values and Public Education: A Case for Reductionism by Ronald Lee Zigler

Spiritual Values and Public Languages by Thomas F. Green (response)

The Educational Philosophy of W.E.B. DuBois by Bartley L. McSwine

W.E.B.DuBois and the Question of Black Women Intellectuals by Renea Henry (response)

Reading Asante's Myth of Afrocentricity: An Ideological Critique by James Palermo

Afrocentricity, Politics and the Problem of Identity by Kate Hytten (reponse)

Moral Empathy: The Necessity of Intersubjectivity and Dialogic Confirmation by Susan Verducci

Paying Empathy Its Due by Susan Rice (response)

Dewey's Idea of Sympathy and the Development of the Ethical Self: A Japanese Perspective by Naoko Saito

Dewey without Doing by Donald Arnstine (response)

African-American Philosophy: Theory, Politics, and Pedagogy by Lewis R. Gordan

On Reading "African-American Philosophy: Theory, Politics and Pedagogy" by James M. Giarelli (response)

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Directions in Community
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For further information, contact Frank Edler fedler@mccneb.edu or John McGaha jmcgaha@mccneb.edu