Coaches are teachers and they succeed to the degree to which they understand that their job is the selfless task of educating students and not the selfish glory of a single-minded pursuit of glittering records. (Author/IRT)

Urges parents to share their own past school experiences with their children. (Author/LD)

Religion as a basis of public morality is examined from both a biblical and utilitarian perspective. (RW)

Discusses the importance of teaching social manners to young children as part of their social development, and describes ways to model good manners and help children form appropriate habits. Includes a chart on the development of manners in infants and toddlers, preschoolers, and older children, which summarizes techniques, language, mealtime…

Jointly discusses the cultural values of Native Americans, presents an integrative review of value studies conducted on Native Americans, and describes a traditional Native-American view of wellness with implications for counseling. Stresses that it is important for counselors to informally assess and more fully understand Native-American cultural…

Presents the dilemma of teachers determining the acceptability of a child's inquiry question (such as the making of a bomb). Lists reflective questions on moral and ethical concerns to guide decision making about whether such inquiries should be pursued. (SK)

Presents excerpts from a 1955 essay by Benjamin E. Mays, long-time president of Morehouse College, on the meaning of racial segregation and the damage it inflicted. Describes three reasons for legal segregation, explaining why it is immoral and how it has damaged the souls and minds of millions of African Americans who will never be cured of…

Human rights discourses are increasingly being coupled to discourses on citizenship and citizenship education. In this paper, I consider the premise that human rights might provide a theoretical underpinning for citizenship. I categorise citizenship into five main categories -- moral, legal, identity-based, participatory and cosmopolitan. Bringing…

The annual "America's Best Colleges" issue of "U.S. News & World Report" is to the news magazine what the annual "Swimsuit" issue is to "Sports Illustrated." Both are best sellers that make big money for their publishers. And both succeed because they are sexy, glamorous, superficial and largely without redeeming social value. But "America's Best…

Slavery's unequivocal evil lies at the heart of debates over apologizing for America's "peculiar institution" and awarding reparations. In The Problem of Evil: Slavery, Freedom, and the Ambiguities of American Reform, a provocative collection of original essays, the editors Steven Mintz and John Stauffer, along with 23 contributors,…

This paper investigates aspects of content knowledge related to teaching and learning about solid waste, focusing on the processes of learning and teaching by Elementary School teachers in Brazil, in two modalities of continuing education: courses and school-based meetings. We analyse elements of teachers' reflections whilst referring to three…

"Drugsbridge" is a humanistic programme providing a "zone of transformation" for discussion and debate on drug use. Twelve young people and six unrelated parents met over four carefully designed and facilitated sessions. Qualitative data enable evaluation of the processes and impact of these. The article highlights three…

This paper argues that competency-based training in vocational education and training in Australia is one mechanism through which the working class is denied access to powerful knowledge represented by the academic disciplines. The paper presents a modified Bernsteinian analysis to argue that vocational education and training students need access…

The small-scale study focuses on a number of Muslim parents and practitioners who have rejected local primary community schools in favour of Muslim faith schooling. The rejection of the type of schools that we support and that we train our student teachers to prepare for prompts considerable concern. This concern has led us to question in what…

In this review essay, Harvey Kantor and Robert Lowe explore the history of the culture wars in public education in the United States. Drawing on three books--David Tyack's "Seeking Common Ground," Jonathan Zimmerman's "Whose America?" and Amy Binder's "Contentious Curricula"--Kantor and Lowe review the history of…