Drowning in the Clear Pool

Cultural Narcissism, Technology and Character Education - A Primer for Secondary Education

Maryanne R. Bednar, Francis J. Ryan, John J. Sweeder (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

198 Seiten

2002
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-4557-1 (ISBN)

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With marked increases in school violence, educators have again been called upon to emphasize character education in their classrooms. While diversity of community values has rendered such efforts increasingly problematic, a more fundamental impasse to character education is cultural narcissism. Adolescents influenced by an inflated sense of grandiosity, entitlement, devaluation of others, and self-absorption often dismiss character education as irrelevant or constraining to their «me-centered» life-styles. To counter cultural narcissism, teachers need to foster character education by developing the moral system (self-understanding, social cognition, moral sentiments, and moral judgment) in each of their students. A creative use of educational technology can help teachers raise moral sensitivity, while simultaneously diluting the negative influences of cultural narcissism that pervades much of contemporary American life.

Reihe/Serie	Counterpoints ; 122
	Counterpoints ; 122
	Counterpoints: Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education ; 122
Zusatzinfo	ill.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 230 mm
Gewicht	230 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Sekundarstufe I+II
ISBN-10	0-8204-4557-6 / 0820445576
ISBN-13	978-0-8204-4557-1 / 9780820445571
Zustand	Neuware