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List of contents
Introduction
Democracy in a New Hampshire School: Applied Citizenship Education
Education in a Democracy
The Student as Citizen: Politics and Development
The School Within a School: A Democratic High School Comes of Age
Democratic Governance at a Large, Diverse High School: The Brookline Experience
The Question of Representation in a Democratic School
Taking Part: Democracy in the Elementary School by Ethel Sadowsky
Education for Democracy and Full Human Competence
Appendix A: School Government: The Council
Appendix B: The Brookline High School Town Meeting
Appendix C: Some Proposals Addresssed by Town Meetings
Bibliography
Index
About the author
RALPH MOSHER is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Developmental Studies of Boston University. His many professional interests over the years have included teacher development supervision of beginning and advanced teachers and helping professionals cirriculum development, particularly to promote personal, socio-moral, and civic development in adolescents and reform of school governance, policymaking, and justice structures to enhance the adolescent's understanding of democracy. He is the co-author of
Democracy with Children (1981), editor of
Moral Education (1980) and
Adolescents' Development and Education (1979) and author of
How to Teach Your Child Right From Wrong (1981),
Value Development (1978), and numerous other books and articles.
ROBERT A. KENNY, JR., is a founding partner of the firm Kenny Howard Associates in Concord, Massachusetts. He specializes in citizenship education, values education, and community participation as strategies to promote development and positive values in youth. He was Associate in Education at the Center for Moral Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he started designing and researching democratic forums for children. A co-founder of the New England Conference for Democratic Schools, he has also served as an advisor at the local, state, and federal levels to develop policy for preventing adolescent self-destructive behavior.
ANDREW GARROD is Associate Professor of Education at Dartmouth College. His research interests are moral development, moral education, and adolescence, and he has published widely in these areas. He is the editor of
Approaches to Moral Development: New Research and Emerging Themes (1993),
Adolescent Portraits: Identity, Relationships and Challenges (1992), and
Learning for Life: Moral Education Theory and Practice (Praeger, 1992).
