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100 _aGill Scherto
245 0 0 _aEthical education :
250 _aFOE Cambridge Education Research Edition.
260 _bCUP
_c2020
300 _a200 pages
490 0 _aCambridge education research
505 2 _aGeneral Introduction / Scherto Gill and Garrett Thomson -- Part 1. Theoretical perspectives on ethical education -- Part 2. Pedagogical approaches to ethical education -- Part 3. Practices of ethical education in schools.
520 _a"Ethical education is very important. Without it, people can be unconcerned about the suffering and plight of others, thereby contributing to a culture of apathy and uncaring; and some can be profoundly ignorant of how different the viewpoints and experiences of others can be from one's own. Arguably, educational institutions across the globe have played a major role in this uncaring, due to their increasing emphasis on knowledge and information transfer (facts over interpretation), instrumentalisation (learning for the sake of financial gain) and individualism (competitive grades). In many parts of the world, these tendencies are exacerbated by the false dichotomy between traditional moral views based on religion, which tend to be insular and dogmatic, and secular conceptions, which tend towards relativism. Internationally, educational practices have not resolved this tension"--
650 0 _aMoral education
700 1 _aGill, Scherto,
700 1 _aThomson, Garrett,
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