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"Jackson, Boostrom, and Hansen capture the ways in which classroom communities shape the hearts and minds of students and teachers alike in as full-bodied a fashion as Jackson's Life in Classrooms first recorded the pulse and passions of school life. The Moral Life of Schools is powerful reading for anyone concerned with the aims of education, with the inner lives of teachers and children, and with the most important foundations of our society-- our ways of learning to live together."--Linda Darling-Hammond, professor of education, Teachers College, Columbia University
List of contents
Looking for the Moral: An Observer's Guide.
Becoming Aware of Moral Complexity Within a School Setting: Four Sets of Observations.
Facing Moral Ambiguity and Tension: Four More Sets of Observations.
Cultivating Expressive Awareness in Schools and Classrooms.
Postscript: Where Might One Go from Here?
About the author
PHILIP W. JACKSON is the David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor of Education and Psychology and a member of the Committee on Ideas and Methods at the University of Chicago. ROBERT E. BOOSTROM is assistant professor of education in the Department of Teacher Education at the University of Southern Indiana. DAVID T. HANSEN is an associate professor of curriculum and instruction in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Summary
"Rarely have I come across a book that so quickly provoked me to re--examine my own classroom behavior. There is no place to hide in this careful scrutiny of the teacher as crucial player in the daily morality tale that becomes the story of school life.
