"The Little Red Hen," Soap Sculpture, and Analyzing Magazines: Character Education in the 1920s and '30s.

Field, Sherry L.; Nickell, Pat

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ERIC Number: EJ616017

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Publication Date: 2000

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"The Little Red Hen," Soap Sculpture, and Analyzing Magazines: Character Education in the 1920s and '30s.

Field, Sherry L.; Nickell, Pat

Educational Forum, v65 n1 p73-79 Fall 2000

Archival research on character education in the 1920s and 1930s in Washington, DC; Denver, Colorado; Birmingham, Alabama; and Pennsylvania, Iowa, and New York reveals that character education was an accepted goal of public schooling. Learning activities were designed to teach specific character traits. (SK)

Descriptors: Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Activities, Moral Values, Public Education

Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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