Helps student examine the choices made by literary characters in the context of novels to explain moral growth and development.
The book engages with theoretical and practical aspects of character development in higher education, combining conceptual discussion of the role of literature in character education with applied case studies from university classrooms.
Teaching Character Education Through Literature
Reading books about heroes, history, imagination, adventures or society. Very different topics in order to satisfy the young readers who love literature, but also to captivate those who have not discovered the magic of books yet.
An introduction to C.S. Lewis' thought on character and faith is followed by practical examples of how to use well-known passages from the Narnia novels as a stimulus for rich character development at home and in the classroom.
Discusses the use of children's and adolescent literature in the classroom for helping to develop moral behavior in students.
This book by well-known authors Liz Knowles and Martha Smith (Boys and Literacy, Reading Rules!, etc.) fills the need for a K-12 resource for teachers and librarians searching for materials and activity ideas for character education at all ...
An at-a-glance, ready-reference guide for teachers, counselors, and librarians who have been charged with character education in the classroom, this book provides detailed analysis of seven fundamental character traits modeled in 111 award ...
Business returns to a once prosperous restaurant when a mysterious stranger pays for his meal with a magical paper crane that comes alive and dances.
Presents an illustrated biography of the Jewish heroine, Luba Tryszynska, who saved the lives of more than fifty Jewish children in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during the winter of 1944/45.
Core Virtues: A Literature-based Program in Character Education, K-6