Maps, Metaphors, and Mirrors: Moral Education in Middle School »

REVIEW: . . . Students of educational theory and practice will enjoy-and learn from-this brief but enlightening and readable book. Recommended for upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and practitioners. . . - September 98 CHOICE The four teachers in this study teach diverse subjects in a variety of settings. Although definitions of moral education are shaped by their backgrounds, their institutions, their perceptions of their students' needs, and their disciplines, all of the teachers consider moral education to be central to their work. For all four, the moral prototype serves as an appeal to the students' imagination, an opportunity to build connectedness and, most important, an invitation to young people to transcend themselves.

Shaping Moral Behavior. Parameters and Limitations

Of Moral Education and Middle Schools

Recent Trends in Moral Education. Heroes and Role Models: Their Place in Moral Education

The Role of the Teacher in Moral Education

The Place of Literature and Narrative Theory in Moral Education

The Research and the Researcher. Personal Background and Theoretical Approach

Research Design

The Sites and Gaining Access to Them

The Godol: Hero and Role Model, Tuvial Kaplan, Springfield Torah Institute

"Heroes and Role Models of Their Kind", George Stratas, Franklin Pierce Middle School

Competent Women, Not "Good Little Girls", Amy Medeiros, Shaw School

"Quiet Heroes" John MacDonald, Roger Wolcott Smith School

A Cross-Classroom Analysis of the Students

Immersion in Popular Culture

The Students' Moral Prototypes

Conclusions and Implications