Moral and spiritual values in education : a challenge to every american / William Clayton Bower.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bower, William Clayton, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Moral education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : University of Kentucky Press, 1952.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book deals with the multiple problem of education in the public schools as it relates to moral and spiritual values. The author cuts a wide swath through the tangled underbrush of church and state, religion and education, sacred and secular, spiritual and materialistic, ""body and soul,"" and lets in a lot of light. To these problems the author brings a lifetime of courageous reflection and experience. To them he also brings, as case studies, the actual experiences of actual children and teachers in actual classrooms in Kentucky, where an experimental program of education in moral and spi

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; I: THE EDUCATIONAL SITUATION; 1. The Problem; 2. Toward A Solution; II: A BASIC PHILOSOPHY; 3. Separation of Church and State; 4. Personality and How It Develops; 5. The Nature of Experience and Its Control; 6. The Functional Relation of Values to Experience; 7. Values Are Indigenous to the School Community; 8. A Program of Emphasis; III: TECHNIQUES OF A PROGRAM OF EMPHASIS; 9. Techniques of Guidance: Developing Situations; 10. Techniques of Analysis: The School Community; 11. Techniques of Analysis: Curriculum Content

12. Techniques of Analysis: Counseling13. Techniques of Analysis: Sports and Recreation; 14. Techniques of Synthesis: Symbolic Expression; Retrospect and Prospect; A Selected Bibliography; Appendix; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 31, 2015).

ISBN:

0-8131-6219-X

OCLC:

591864301