Teaching Peace
Toward Cultural Selflessness
Published on 30. June 1994
Book
Hardback
216 pages
978-0-89789-371-8 (ISBN)
Description
Lasley shows how American culture fosters selfishness, aggression, and violence. He believes that selflessness can and should be taught in the home and in the schools as an antidote to the individualism and tribalism that multicultural diversity can lead to. Without a certain cultural and personal respect for the other, the myriad racial, ethnic, and ideological differences could tear American society apart. Lasley uses ethnological examples of non-Western societies that stress nonviolence to elucidate models of peaceful behavior. He provides ways and means of teaching peaceful principles by using the literature of altruism and the images of service and other-directed activities.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Interest Age: From 7 to 17 years
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
502 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-89789-371-8 (9780897893718)
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Person
THOMAS J. LASLEY II is Professor and Endowed Chair of the Department of Teacher Education at the University of Dayton in Ohio./e He is the coauthor of numerous books including Biting the Apple: Accounts of First Year Teachers (1980) and A Handbook for Developing Schools With Good Discipline (1982) and the editor of Issues in Teacher Education (1986).
Content
Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Cultural Perspectives on Value Dispositions What is Selflessness? Values That Diminish Selflessness and Foster Aggression Selflessness and Nonaggression: Cultural Examples Selfishness and Aggression: Cultural Examples Personal Perspectives on Value Acquisition Self-Definition: Personal Conditions for Selflessness Learning to Care and Share Educational Perspectives on Teaching Values Selfless Schools Selfless Families Selfless Communities Appendix A: Teaching Responsibility: Case Examples Appendix B: The Literature of Selflessness Appendix C: Character Education Programs Bibliography Index