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- Title
Can Schools Teach Values?
- Authors
Howe, II, Harold
- Abstract
This article focuses on the question as to whether schools can teach values to youngsters. Schools cannot help teaching. Youngsters simply cannot spend six hours a day in an institution for thirteen of the most impressionable years of their lives and not be influenced in their attitudes and behavior by what goes on there. The problem is that schools sometimes, without being entirely aware of it, can teach both negative and positive values. The complex nature of the many activities and relationships in a school will help to determine whether a student cheats, whether respect or suspicion characterizes attitudes toward schoolmates, whether destructive behavior is encouraged or denigrated by the culture of the school. Knowing what is good or bad probably makes some difference in behavior, but learning it in a way that includes some spark of personal interest and sense of common concern between student and teacher is likely to make more. This is what good teaching is all about, and it is an art rather than a science. It is possible in schools to examine value issues through a case-study method, which if skillfully taught can have a considerable impact on a youngster's feelings and beliefs.
- Subjects
SCHOOLS; VALUES (Ethics); ADULTS; BEHAVIOR; CULTURE; LEARNING; EDUCATION
- Publication
Teachers College Record, 1987, Vol 89, Issue 1, p55
- ISSN
0161-4681
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/016146818708900101