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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Goodman, Joan F.; Eren, Nimet Suheyla – Ethics and Education, 2013
Students in urban under-resourced schools are often disengaged from the curriculum. Distributing voice (agency) to them would seem an obvious counter to their alienation, allowing them to be co-constructors rather than objects of their education. Beyond being pragmatically sound, student agency is, arguably, a psychological and moral imperative.…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Urban Schools, High School Seniors, Economically Disadvantaged
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Goodman, Joan F.; Kitzmiller, Erika – Ethics and Education, 2010
School anti-violence programs are united in their radical condemnation of aggression, generally equated with violence. The programs advocate its elimination by priming children's emotional and cognitive controls. What goes unrecognized is the embeddedness of aggression in human beings, as well as its positive psychological and moral functions. In…
Descriptors: Altruism, Assertiveness, Violence, Prevention
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Goodman, Joan F. – Ethics and Education, 2009
Respect is a cardinal virtue in schools and foundational to our common ethical beliefs, yet its meaning is muddled. For philosophers Kant, Mill, and Rawls, whose influential theories span three centuries, respect includes appreciation of universal human dignity, equality, and autonomy. In their view children, possessors of human dignity, but…
Descriptors: Human Dignity, Ethics, Teacher Student Relationship, Adults
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Goodman, Joan F. – Ethics and Education, 2008
Statements of need are used promiscuously by caretakers and children. The term may refer to mere wants (desire), to wants that have become socialized into secondary needs, to needs inferred by adults based on interpretations of future adaptive requirements, as well as to fundamental needs required for a child's well-being. It is important to…
Descriptors: Well Being, Childhood Needs, Definitions, Caregiver Child Relationship
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Goodman, Joan F. – Ethics and Education, 2007
It is generally acknowledged that school discipline is failing. Through a comparison of two very different disciplinary situations, I inquire into possible causes of failure and conditions of success. The argument is made that if discipline is to succeed, students must believe in and identify with the goals it is designed to support. Questions are…
Descriptors: Discipline, Discipline Policy, Functional Behavioral Assessment, Moral Values
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Goodman, Joan F. – Ethics and Education, 2006
Can schools encourage children to become independent moral decision-makers, maintaining controlled environments suitable to instructing large numbers of children? Two opposing responses are reviewed: one holds that the road to morality is through discipline and obedience, the other through children's experimentation and choice-making.…
Descriptors: Discipline, Moral Development, Ethical Instruction, Decision Making