Pioneering moral education : Victor Cook and his foundation / W. A. Gatherer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gatherer, W. A. (William Alexander), 1924-2009, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Moral education--Great Britain.

Moral education.

Moral education--Great Britain--History.

Cook, Victor, 1897-1990.

Cook, Victor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 182 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2010.

Summary:

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748621187);This book is a biography of a leader of the campaign for moral education which had been conducted for several decades in Britain and in the USA. The campaign has culminated in the establishment of many programmes of 'education for citizenship', 'values education', ethics education', 'character education' and 'education for global citizenship' - in effect, the establishment of moral education in schools throughout the world. But the book is also a history of the campaign in the UK since the 1960s, when Victor Cook, a millionaire engineer and businessman in Aberdeen, began to devote his remaining thirty years of life, and all his wealth, to persuading the educational establishment to give priority to this central area of the work of schools. Faced with indifference and even mockery, Cook and the small but growing band of professional educationists and philosophers recruited to the cause set up studies of the subject and its problems, commissioned research and development projects, and sponsored conferences and experimental teaching programmes. They also encouraged policy makers and politicians to take seriously the proposition that moral education, conducted along with or in addition to cognate subjects such as religious education and social studies, can and should be introduced as an important function of educational organisations. Set in the context of recent educational developments, this narrative, and the accompanying expositions of theories and practices, provides new insights into a complex but important subject, and a comprehensive account of the development of moral education and its role in the world of today."

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Chapter One. The life and times of Victor Cook

Chapter Two. Towards the Foundation

Chapter Three. Victor as lobbyist

Chapter Four. The Plan and the Deed

Chapter Five. Political constraints

Chapter Six. Developments in moral education: theory and practice

Chapter Seven. The failure of the pedagogy

Chapter Eight. The way towards public acceptance

Chapter Nine. The 1980s: progress

Chapter Ten. Triumphs and anxieties

Chapter Eleven. Tributes

Chapter Twelve. Towards a theory of values education

Chapter Thirteen. The campaign in the nineties

Chapter Fourteen. New emphases: values education for health and enterprise

Chapter Fifteen. Education for citizenship

Chapter Sixteen. Education for character and moral competence

Notes and references

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4744-6839-X