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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Moral instruction"”.
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The struggle for moral education in English elementary schools 1879-1918
This thesis examines moral education in English elementary schools from 1879 to 1918. It investigates why there was widespread interest in character formation in the elementary school at this time but not support for one particular sort of programme. It investigates how moral education was …
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Don't Put Your Shoes on the Bed: A Moral Analysis of <em>To Kill a Mockingbird</em>.
… remarkable novel which provides a great deal of moral insight for its readers; through a use of history, moral instruction, and character development, Lee establishes a foundation for how people in an often intolerant world should live peacefully together. Moreover, she reminds the reader that …
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The reception and teaching of Shakespeare in nineteenth and early twentieth century America
… curriculum has changed from being a vehicle of moral instruction to being an agent for deepening students' emotional response to life in general. He entered American culture through the familiar stage tradition and fragments of his work were used in the early schoolbooks. Recognizing the …
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The paradoxical exemplar : the image of Saladin in Don Juan Manuel's El conde lucanor
… that the fourteenth-century text was intended as moral instruction for a Christian audience. This report addresses this paradox by determining Saladin’s placement within Juan Manuel’s moral and spiritual philosophy through textual and comparative character analyses. The first section applies …
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Thomas Jefferson and the Founding of the University of Virginia: An American Age of Reason, Religion, and Republicanism
… and to reconcile, secular learning with moral instruction, religious diversity and the rights of individual conscience, with the overall aims and objectives of America's collegiate franchises; it also offers a critical examination of the forces at play both prior to and during the …
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The moral education curriculum and policy in Chinese junior high schools: changes and challenges
The purpose of this study was to examine China's moral education curriculum objectives; moral education effectiveness from the perspective of moral educators; the role of changing social context on moral education; a comparison of the effectiveness of moral education in rural and urban school …
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Cornucopia: Food as Signifier in Literature For the Young
… two of the many avenues of socialization and moral instruction. Additionally, characters' attitudes toward food represent a measure of their growth, autonomy, self-control, and status. Numerous contradictions arise, however, in that food and eating, arguably the most crucial and enjoyable …
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The place of religion in education from the stand-point of Roman Catholicism
… shifted to the latter. Gradually, religious and moral instruction, leading to a practice of Christian religion, were neglected until they were virtually omitted in many public schools. This tragic result was brought about by the combined influence which naturalism and the scientific method, …
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"Put on the Lord Jesus Christ": A Study of Clothing Metaphors in Paul's Ethics
… the communication and internalization of his moral vision in the minds of his recipients. For Paul, believers’ ethical conduct is rooted in their union with Christ and is expressed through a way of life that reflects Christ’s character and example, as revealed in his life, death, and …
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The world is broken: Expanding frame-alignment theory with campus ministries
… through evangelism to nonmembers and spiritual/moral instruction of their membership. Rather than an injustice frame with temporal villains to overcome, their collective action frame has members contending with flaws in the world itself, and thus, themselves. As with the broader evangelical …
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The Pastoral Image: Guillaume de Deguileville’s Spiritual Pedagogy in the Pèlerinage Allegories
… as dream visions filled with ethical and moral instruction, designed to guide both the reader and the pilgrim-narrator from the terrestrial life to the next life. Designed as Christian pedagogy for laypeople, the Pèlerinages form part of a tradition of memorial art and personification …