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Character Matters: How to Help Our Children Develop Good Judgment, Integrity, and Other Essential Virtues Original Edition
Contributor(s): Lickona, Thomas (Author)

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 ISBN: 0743245075     ISBN-13: 9780743245074
Publisher: Atria Books
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2004
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Annotation: In "Why Character Matters," a leader in the character education movement and author of the landmark book, "Educating for Character," Likona now lays out 100 specific strategies that will help parents as well as teachers instill children with the values that will help them lead good and successful lives.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- Family & Relationships | Education
- Family & Relationships | Parenting - General
Dewey: 370.114
LCCN: 2003059191
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" L (0.70 lbs) 336 pages
Themes:
- Theometrics - Secular
- Topical - Family
Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 12/01/2003 pg. 48
Library Journal 01/01/2004 pg. 148
 
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Publisher Description:
Award-winning psychologist and educator Thomas Lickona offers more than one hundred practical strategies that parents and schools have used to help kids build strong personal character as the foundation for a purposeful, productive, and fulfilling life.

Succeeding in life takes character, and Lickona shows how irresponsible and destructive behavior can invariably be traced to the absence of good character and its ten essential qualities: wisdom, justice, fortitude, self-control, love, a positive attitude, hard work, integrity, gratitude, and humility.

The culmination of a lifetime's work in character education from one the preeminent psychologists of our time, this landmark book gives us the tools we need to raise respectful and responsible children, create safe and effective schools, and build the caring and decent society in which we all want to live.

Contributor Bio(s): Lickona, Thomas: - Thomas Lickona is a developmental psychologist and professor of education at the State University of New York at Cortland, where he directs the Center for the 4th and 5th Rs (respect and responsibility). The recipient of the Sandy Lifetime Achievement Award from the Character Education Partnership, he is the author of Educating for Character, which has been called "the bible of the character education movement."
 
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