Race-Ing Moral Formation: African American Perspectives on Care and Justice (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780807744499)

This critical volume incorporates the experiences of African Americans into the discourse on moral-development theory and moral education. Featuring cutting-edge essays, this book challenges widely held beliefs and offers new perspectives on moral reasoning.

Features:

• A framework for interpreting the psychology of moral formation among African-American children, adolescents, and adults.
• Practical, pedagogical perspectives on promoting care, justice, and moral formation in our schools, grounded in a multiracial understanding of moral education.
• Blends the separate literatures on African American education and on moral education.
• Investigates distinct moral dilemmas that face the African American community, such as closing the education achievement gap, affirmative action, and the failure of academic institutions to be responsive to the needs of African American children.


Author: Vanessa Siddle Walker
ISBN-10: 0807744492
ISBN-13: 9780807744499
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Language: English
Published: 05/26/2004
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.16w x 0.56d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2004 pg. 711
Multicultural Review 03/01/2005 pg. 93
Choice 06/01/2008 pg. 1696