Character Matters: How to Help Our Children Develop Good Judgment, Integrity, and Other Essential VirtuesAward-winning psychologist and educator Thomas Lickona offers more than one hundred practical strategies that parents and schools have used to help kids build strong personal character as the foundation for a purposeful, productive, and fulfilling life. Succeeding in life takes character, and Lickona shows how irresponsible and destructive behavior can invariably be traced to the absence of good character and its ten essential qualities: wisdom, justice, fortitude, self-control, love, a positive attitude, hard work, integrity, gratitude, and humility. The culmination of a lifetime’s work in character education from one the preeminent psychologists of our time, this landmark book gives us the tools we need to raise respectful and responsible children, create safe and effective schools, and build the caring and decent society in which we all want to live. |
Contents
Character as Transformation of Moral Self | 20 |
The National Character Education Movement | 29 |
Build a Strong HomeSchool | 60 |
Assign Family Homework | 66 |
Renew the Compact | 72 |
Be Responsive to Parental Complaints | 78 |
PART THREECreate Classrooms of | 109 |
Teach Academics and Character | 121 |
Help Kids and Adults Take | 196 |
PART FOURCreate Schools of Character | 217 |
Involve Students in Creating | 247 |
PART FIVECreate Communities of Character | 259 |
Get Business Involved | 268 |
Epilogue | 277 |
Notes | 289 |
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