Character, Public Schooling, and Religious Education, 1920-1934
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4517698 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Heather A Warren (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 61-80 |
| Publication date | 1997-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religion and American Culture A Journal of Interpretation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1052-1151 • E-ISSN: 1533-8568 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1525/rac.1997.7.1.03a00030 |
| OpenAlex | W4235729765 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
Over the past five years, the American public has witnessed a flurry of interest in "character" and "character or moral education." In 1992, William Kilpatrick wrote a book that attracted widespread attention,Why Johnny Can't Tell Right from Wrong: Moral Illiteracy and the Case for Character Education.A year later, William Bennett's best-selling anthology of remedial readings appeared,The Book of Virtues.More recently, Gertrude Himmelfarb published a book on the Victorian golden age of morals. At the same time, within the educational field, a subprofession of consultants devoted to character work has aimed to affect schooling at the elementary and secondary levels. As early as the mid-1970's, theologians and ethicists began discussing the idea of character, taking their cue from Stanley Hauerwas. Common to all of these writers is the belief that character has a necessary tie to religion and democracy
Aesthetics · Art · Character education · Democracy · Epistemology · Functional illiteracy · Literature · Moral character · Political science · Politics · Remedial education · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · American History and Culture · American Political and Social Dynamics · Law · Philosophy
The transformation of the school
Strangers in the Land Patterns of American Nativism 1800-1925
Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920
"The World of Hope"
The Transformation of the school
A Social Theory of Religious Education
From Sunday School to Church School
Schools and the Shaping of Character
The Damned and the Beautiful
In Search of Progressivism
Moral man and immoral society
A Religious History of the American People
The American Religious Depression, 1925-1935
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |